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

[Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...>]

On 2016-05-25 17:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
>> This email is confidential and subject to the
>> disclaimer<http://www.bbd.co.za/disclaimer> on the BBD website.
>>
>>
> 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.


He refers to the search on this mail list archive at

https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/fetchmail-users/

It is true that it does not work. I searched for your name and it finds
just this post. You have to scroll down to see it. But mine is not found
at all, and I know I posted a few times.

https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/search/?q=Carlos

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)