On Mi, 18 ian 12, 19:16:03, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > * From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> > * Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:06:16 +0200 > > Try having a look at your mail via some other > > means (webmail or so) to see if there is something that might create > > problems. > > Web access shows nothing unusual. Messages have come > to the I.S.P. mailbox since the problem with POP appeared > and I've deleted messages, including the oldest, via the Web. > So newest and oldest messages have changed. Assuming > message 1 is the newest or oldest, POP can't be stumbling > on one specific message. I can empty the mailbox with the > Web interface and see the result. Sorry, no other ideas. > > For automatic retrieval I have been using getmail for a long time. > > Do you have Exim still? I do have postfix, but only for sending mails. The recommended getmail setup does not involve any sendmail clone (unlike fetchmail)[1]. You may want to use an MDA (mail delivery agent), since getmail's built-in sorting is limited. The author believes in The Unix Way (tm) - do one thing and do it well ;) [1] re-injecting received mails in a SMTP daemon can lead to strange results if you are not careful. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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