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

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 25.05.2016 um 20:53 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> 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.

I see it, too, for several search terms I've tried, and have filed a
support request with sourceforge.net at
<https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/12855/> - let's see what
they find and if they can fix it.  If not, I'll pull up another plan.

Until then thanks to Nerijunas for the link to the gmane.org search
interface (the sf.net mailing list archive interface is pretty awkward
anyways.)