Ive tried to setup my fetchmail through KDE2 and when I run fetchmalconf through the run button, the gui config comes up, I add my provider, then click on it to edit and I get a tiny blank winow thats blank.I resize the window How the heck are you supposed to use that!?? anyone else see this? 7.1 KDE2 Im just curious... as to what others are using , or if this bug has been reported thanks rob -- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. -- Samuel Butler 6:20am up 5 days, 23:26, 2 users, load average: 1.53, 1.63, 1.44 __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \ / /____/_/_//_/\_,_//_\_\
Have you grabbed the updates from ftp.suse.com? That might help. I have found that both fetchmailconf and fetchmail are buggier than they used to be. I've had problems with fetchmailconf recently, so I don't use it any more, I just edit .fetchmailrc by hand. But fetchmail itself has some new problems. It used to be that when I left fetchmail in daemon mode and disconnected from the internet for long periods of time, it would happily quiesce until a new connection was made, when it would go about its business. Now it gums up and has to be killed and restarted. At the same time, I see no new features in it to compensate for this behaviour. C On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:26:58AM +0000, rob wrote:
Ive tried to setup my fetchmail through KDE2 and when I run fetchmalconf through the run button, the gui config comes up, I add my provider, then click on it to edit and I get a tiny blank winow thats blank.I resize the window How the heck are you supposed to use that!??
anyone else see this? 7.1 KDE2
Im just curious... as to what others are using , or if this bug has been reported
thanks
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Corvin Russell
Corvin Russell wrote:
Have you grabbed the updates from ftp.suse.com? That might help. I have found that both fetchmailconf and fetchmail are buggier than they used to be. I've had problems with fetchmailconf recently, so I don't use it any more, I just edit .fetchmailrc by hand. But fetchmail itself has some new problems. It used to be that when I left fetchmail in daemon mode and disconnected from the internet for long periods of time, it would happily quiesce until a new connection was made, when it would go about its business. Now it gums up and has to be killed and restarted. At the same time, I see no new features in it to compensate for this behaviour.
Well I am running it as a dameon following the Readme file and using inserv it works fine and very happyly waiting for the net to come up or fetch mail -- Togan Muftuoglu
Thats exactlt whats happening! sometimes it works and others it hangs Message to the effect "cant resolve cannonical name <myprovider> but... sometime its works :-/ most discouraging for what started out to be a robust program. No I havent gotten any new code from SuSE for something as simple as a broken fetchmail/conf. Im appaled, now I have to wasaste my time digging up the new file... installing and wondering what else it will BREAK in the process suse needs to get its Sh#@ togother if it plans to be charging $70 for a distro Hence my post of this STUPID BUG here!! Hubert, Lenz, Michael... are you listening??? This is NOT acceptable!!! Corvin thanks for confirming my suspicion rob Corvin Russell wrote:
Have you grabbed the updates from ftp.suse.com? That might help. I have found that both fetchmailconf and fetchmail are buggier than they used to be. I've had problems with fetchmailconf recently, so I don't use it any more, I just edit .fetchmailrc by hand. But fetchmail itself has some new problems. It used to be that when I left fetchmail in daemon mode and disconnected from the internet for long periods of time, it would happily quiesce until a new connection was made, when it would go about its business. Now it gums up and has to be killed and restarted. At the same time, I see no new features in it to compensate for this behaviour.
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:26:58AM +0000, rob wrote:
Ive tried to setup my fetchmail through KDE2 and when I run fetchmalconf through the run button, the gui config comes up, I add my provider, then click on it to edit and I get a tiny blank winow thats blank.I resize the window How the heck are you supposed to use that!??
anyone else see this? 7.1 KDE2
Im just curious... as to what others are using , or if this bug has been reported
thanks
-- Corvin Russell
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Shipped with 7.1 (packaged in January): fetchmail-5.6.5-4.i386.rpm fetchmailconf-5.6.5-4.i386.rpm Current Version (Bug fixes included): Intel binary RPM of fetchmail 5.8.1 (uses glibc-2.2) The above is from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ You can use the version on this website on your 7.1 box..I do and it works perfectly. No issues. To say that it's SuSE's fault because bugs happen..and they can't catch everything in 1900+ packages..is just silly. The new version is not that big...just do this: rpm -Uvh --nodeps fetchmail-5.8.1-1.i386.rpm Remember that the rpm from the official site has both fetchmail and fetchmailconf in it..so don't worry about looking for 2 packages..it's all there. Hope that helps. ;) =>Hubert, Lenz, Michael... are you listening??? This is NOT acceptable!!! -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
hia Ben Whose fault is it??? no ones I suppose... what gets me is most people want to do the basics make a dial up connection get and send email browse the net print documents when I see something as obiviously BROKEN as the fetchmailconf it just amazes me! So its nothing to ask for suggest a decent level of quality without having to go to other sources to get the damm software. Sure we can MAKE it work.... but in todays world something as simple as configuring your mail transit should NOT be broke! If distros want to be professional (and command a professional price) they should have the obivious functionality working. when I started with Linux it was fun to tweek the files but after a while I expect the obivious shit to work (Its not fun anymore...) New software sure, heavily configured stuff yea but not the easy stuff, there no excuse for that except POOR quality control and or lack of communication. Im not ranting on you, but all I seemed to get (from 6.4 to 7.1 is a fancy desktop and load of new hoops to jump through.) I came from commandline due to low quality machines, as thats changing I see the eye candy software and I expect it to WORK and most of it dosnt whitout having to go here, get this, break something, reconfigure that.... Sleep with documentation... I want to do stuff ON the pc not TO the damm thing. I could provide a list a mile long of broken shit, methinks version 9 or 10 *may* be mature, yea its come a long way but..... whatever rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Shipped with 7.1 (packaged in January): fetchmail-5.6.5-4.i386.rpm fetchmailconf-5.6.5-4.i386.rpm
Current Version (Bug fixes included): Intel binary RPM of fetchmail 5.8.1 (uses glibc-2.2)
The above is from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
You can use the version on this website on your 7.1 box..I do and it works perfectly. No issues. To say that it's SuSE's fault because bugs happen..and they can't catch everything in 1900+ packages..is just silly. The new version is not that big...just do this:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps fetchmail-5.8.1-1.i386.rpm
Remember that the rpm from the official site has both fetchmail and fetchmailconf in it..so don't worry about looking for 2 packages..it's all there.
Hope that helps. ;) =>Hubert, Lenz, Michael... are you listening??? This is NOT acceptable!!!
-- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
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