Re: fetchmail doesn't work after upgrade to 3.2

["J. Scott Edwards" <sedwards@xmission.com>]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Luis Bruno wrote:

> J. Scott Edwards wrote:
> > I have just upgraded to 3.2 and everything seems to work fine (so far)
> > except fetchmail.  If I run it the way I ran it with 3.1:
> >
> >  fetchmail -a xmission.com
>
> Around here, this sintax works in both versions, 5.9.6 and 6.1.0.

Very strange.

> >  fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying xmission.com (protocol POP3) at Sun, 01 Dec
> > 2002 10:46:54 -0700 (MST): poll started
> >  fetchmail: POP3< Can't open perl script "/usr/local/sbin/fakepop":
> > Permission denied
> >  fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
>
> Is the xmission.com MX under your control? That's where the problem is.
> If the POP3 server has no fakepop, then change its configuration.
>

Nope, I have no control over it.  I guess I could call them on the phone
and see what they say.  I suppose it's possible that xmission changed
something at the same time as I upgraded.  I did get a notice when I ran
Pine this morning that it was a new version.

Thanks
  -Scott