[Wylug-help] IMAP problem

[Anne Wilson]

2008/9/16 Stephen Patterson <steve at patter.mine.nu>:
> On 16 Sep 08, Anne Wilson (cannewilson at googlemail.com) wrote:
>> I'm reduced to working on Googlemail - thank heavens I set gmail to
>> keep copies of mail.  Sometime yesterday I stopped receiving mail - I
>> was busy at the time so didn't notice for hours.
>>
>> My system is fetchmail (running as a cron), procmail, dovecot, kmail
>> (I also have thunderbird).  Most, though not all, of my mail goes
>> through gmail.  I have tried to test the separate sections, but the
>> only thing I can come up with is that running 'fetchmail -a' manually
>> returns to a prompt, without any notices of mailboxes checked.  That
>> is surely wrong.
>
> Try 'fetchmail -v', that'll give you plenty of debug information
>
>> At the same time, reading mail on Horde on zen.co.uk suggests that
>> mail must be fetched, since there is none on the server.
>>
>> The procmail log file seems to stop abruptly, but that's showing a
>> modified time-stamp of  28th August, which is ridiculous since I was
>> reading mail yesterday morning. That file is still set as the logfile
>> in .procmailrc.  Perms are
>>
>> -rw------- 1 anne anne 6025 Sep 12 20:27 .procmailrc
>
> I'd suggest a few settings in procmailrc for debugging
> LOG='---- '
> VERBOSE=on
>
If that means 'empty the log', I've just renamed it and created an
empty text file.  I also have

VERBOSE=YES
LOGABSTRACT=YES
 in .procmailrc

Anne