Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...
On 8/14/14, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>>> The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running
>>> exim4-heavy.
>>
>> Exim is only involved after the mail is collected.
>>
>>> But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a
>>> reason why one is more verbose than the other.
>>
>> Messages are being logged to a file but not to the screen?
>
> You have a sharp eye Brian. I finally noticed the difference in each
> .fetchmailrc. host1 old, had the file to log to, commented
> host2 new, had the file to log to, uncommented....
>
> So on host2 logging went to the file...
> Gad what a bozo...
If you do go to a faster alternative to fetchmail, I strongly suggest
the "just get one message" option until you have debugged things.
Good luck,
Zenaan
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