Ronan Waide wrote:
>On December 11, mpage at esatclear.ie said:
>>>fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
>>>>Wow. That looks like an insanely broken way to do "RETR 1". The
>exceedingly large number might be upsetting the POP server. Have you
>tried tracing the connection with tcpdump to see what traffic (if any)
>is being sent back by the server?
>Ronan, Thanks for the prompt response but I am a newbie going on
intermediate and am a lot lost. Mozilla mail will send and fetch
(although fetch always takes two attempts) so I'm assuming a config file
somewhere needs amending. I have tried everything I know including
substituting for fetchmail with sendmail, postfix etc but I think stale
files hang around after an apt-get remove and an apt-get install. I am
only trying to get Mutt working well and reading my /var/mail directory.
Perhaps I am missing another way of getting there?
>
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