heirloom mailx and POP3

m4rtin · 09-26-2013, 05:18 PM

I would like to copy all the e-mail messages in my POP3 server to a single file in my PC with heirloom mailx. Content of .mailrc in my home directory is following:

Code:

user@T60:~$ cat .mailrc 
account myaccount {
set folder=pop3://myuser@mydomain.com
set from="myuser@mydomain.com"
set smtp=mail.mydomain.com
}
user@T60:~$

Now if I execute "mailx -A myaccount", then I receive that I have no new mail:

Code:

user@T60:~$ mailx -A myaccount
No mail for user
user@T60:~$

If I tcpdump traffic to mydomain.com, then there is none. Setup in this topic seems to be very similar. Am I doing something wrong?

unSpawn · 09-29-2013, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by m4rtin

Now if I execute "mailx -A myaccount", then I receive that I have no new mail:

Code:

user@T60:~$ mailx -A myaccount
No mail for user
user@T60:~$

- Ensure your account settings including settings like TLS usage, initial mailbox are right.
- Invoke mailx with the debug flag to see what's going on behind the screens:

Code:

user@T60:~$ mailx -A myaccount -d 2>&1 | tee /tmp/mailx.debug

then check "/tmp/mailx.debug" for clues.

m4rtin · 09-29-2013, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

- Ensure your account settings including settings like TLS usage, initial mailbox are right.
- Invoke mailx with the debug flag to see what's going on behind the screens:

Code:

user@T60:~$ mailx -A myaccount -d 2>&1 | tee /tmp/mailx.debug

then check "/tmp/mailx.debug" for clues.

unSpawn, TLS/SSL is not used. If I execute the mailx with the debug flag, following is logged to mailx.debug file:

Code:

user@T60:~$ cat /tmp/mailx.debug
user = user, homedir = /home/user
No mail for user
user@T60:~$

At the time, when I execute "mailx -A myaccount -d" I have a tcpdump("tcpdump -nei wlan0 port 110") running and no packages are captured. In addition, the "No mail for user" message appears immediately. In a nutshell, for some reason, mailx does not try to contact the POP3 server at mydomain.com

unSpawn · 10-01-2013, 03:43 PM

Oddly enough I can't get it to work either and stracing it doesn't show a clue. Would you be willing to try another client other than Fetchmail then I'd suggest getmail. If you do set "verbose = 1" and point "message_log" to a valid path and file name for debugging purposes.