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Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem



On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran 
> apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade.  All went well but I did 
> not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the 
> configuration.  As a result exim4 was left in a broken state that could 
> neither be fixed nor removed.  As instructed, I read 
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz and tried to follow the 
> instructions without success (my fault, I just could find proper file and 
> make the change as instructed).  Finally, I found example.conf.gz in 
> /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples, unzipped it and copied it to 
> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.  With this change apt-get -f install 
> completed the installation of exim4.
>
> With exim4 installed fetchmail fetched 200+ postings from several users 
> lists and put them somewhere but mutt couldn't find them.  As root I ran 
> runq but mutt still found nothing.
>
> I know most of this setup works because I sent an email to myself and then 
> ran strace -e open,write fetchmail.  I was able to read the email I sent to 
> myself in the output.
>
> Also mutt still displays older messages which I have not erased.
>
> For the present I am reading my emails with iceape but I preferred the mutt 
> output.
>
> I would appreciate any help in restoring the mutt output of the email that 
> fetchmail fetches.

Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered?

	Ben

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