Re: [Fetchmail-users] Unable to search user mails

[Gene H. <ghe...@wd...>]

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 08:06:20 Michael Davidson wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a new user to Fetchmail and its user lists.   I have problem and
> would like to search the list but the search function does not seem to
> work for me.  Is this intended because it's a deprecated project
> perhaps.
>
> Regards,
> Mike D.
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>
>
Better not be deprecated, I've been using it for a nearly 2 decades now, 
and it I live long enough to reach 91 I'll run it another decade yet.  
Most of the odd things have been fixed by now, so it just runs, every 3 
minutes here.

99% of the problems can be fixed by a phone call to your ISP to see what 
they need to allow you "pop3" access, and the proper use of an MTA, Mail 
Transfer Agent, something like procmail to take the fetchmail output and 
put it in the systems /var/spool/mail/username file which nearly all 
other reader programs will pull and will and sort that mail to their own 
directory tree.

See the man page(s) and much of it will be explained.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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