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List:       exmh-users
Subject:    Re: pop access not working in 2.3.1
From:       Glenn Burkhardt <glenn () aoi ! ultranet ! com>
Date:       2001-04-23 16:59:33
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> I initiated the "exmh peculiarity" thread, sorry for the ambiguity so I am 
> latching on this title to be more specific.  I tried the workaround and patch 
> submitted by glenn@aoi -- didn't help.  Basically goes to my POP3 server and 
> my POP3 server asks for my uname & password but does not transfer the mail to 
> my local /var/spool/mail/username file.  If I use fetchmail I can see that 
> mail is there and waiting, if I let fetchmail finish it transfers mail to my 
> localhost but I have no idea where it is being stored.  Any ideas on how to 
> get exmh to get mail and store it in /var/spool/mail so inc can do its job?

The mail is not supposed to go to '/var/spool/mail' when running with POP.
The 'inc' command puts it into your inbox.  

To debug these kinds of problems, turn on debug logging under 'hacking 
support', and look at the execution of the 'inc' command, checking for 
error messages.  Also, you must be able to execute the 'inc' command outside
of 'exmh' properly for any of this to work.  It should be something like:

	inc +inbox -truncate -nochangecur -width 80

Check the man page for 'inc' to see how this is supposed to work.  Also,
if you're running nmh 1.0.4, and not using .netrc for your user name and
password, there's a patch that's required for it work with glibc (read: Linux
systems).  A fix has been incorporated into the nmh CVS repository, but 
it's not in the 1.0.4 tarball.





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