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Re: [PLUG] fetchmail, POP, and directories
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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:40:39AM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:32:12AM -0500, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> > My domain host offered me a free upgrade to my service
> > and I took it. It's on another server and there is some
> > transition time where both servers are running and the
> > email is being delivered to either one (depends on the
> > routing - I changed the registrar of the domain and,
> > therefore, the nameservers too).
> >
> > The problem I'm having is that I cannot get the email from
> > the new server. I use fetchmail. On the old server the
> > POP server got the mail from my directory, not from /var/spool/mail.
> > On the new server, POP looks in /var/spool/mail but the mail is
> > in my directory.
> >
> > Is this my fault or the configuration of the POP server?
> > If it's my fault, how to I tell fetchmail to look elsewhere to
> > get the mail? I don't see and option (for POP3) to set that.
>
> You are correct that this is not yours to configure, it is a pop
> daemon configuration option. But for that very reason I'm suspicious:
> how do you know that fetchmail is "looking in your home directory?"
> What do you see in fetchmail's log file that suggests this?
>
> --
> Jeff
Okay, thanks for the info. I'll request that they change the setup
of the POP server to look in the correct place.
Below is a sample from my fetchmail log. Lines 06 and 17 are
where the POP server informs me where it's looking for the
mail.
Old server.....
01 fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (protocol POP3) at Mon 06 Jan 2003 08:13:19 AM EST
02 fetchmail: POP3< +OK XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX POP3 Server (Version 1.020h) ready.
03 fetchmail: POP3> USER user
04 fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
05 fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
06 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 messages ready for user in /home/user/user-mail/user
07 fetchmail: POP3> STAT
08 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 0
09 fetchmail: No mail for user at XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
10 fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
11 fetchmail: POP3< +OK XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX POP3 Server (Version 1.020h) shutdown.
New server.....
12 fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (protocol POP3) at Mon 06 Jan 2003 08:13:25 AM EST
13 fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 [DarkORB cppop 2.0] at [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]
14 fetchmail: POP3> USER user
15 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Need a password
16 fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
17 fetchmail: POP3< +OK You have 0 messages totaling 0 octets from /var/spool/mail/user
18 fetchmail: POP3> STAT
19 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 0
20 fetchmail: No mail for user at XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
21 fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
22 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Bye!
Eric
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