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Re: "G" and fetchmail



On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 01:21:48PM -0600, Greg Kedrovsky wrote:
: 
: On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 09:08:04PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
: > 
: > If you run 'fetchmail' as $USER, 
: > you need a working ~/.fetchmailrc in your $HOME.
: 
: Okay. That makes sense.
: 
: I did that, but Mutt gives me some message about a stale lock file,
: shows the messages I have out on my mail servers, and then that's it.
: Doesn't download them. ??

When fetchmail is not running, look around and delete any lock files
that are still there (but really shouldn't exist at all).

        ~/.fetchmail.pid
        /var/run/fetchmail.pid
        /etc/fetchmail.pid
        ...