[mew-int 01966] Re: mew can't retrieve messages

[Martin Simon]

From: Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01965] Re: mew can't retrieve messages
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:09:47 +0900 (JST)

> On February 11, 2005, [mew-int 01964],
> martin (at artslink.de) wrote:
> 
> > as before I am still not able to get messages from one of my mail accounts.
> > mozilla mail, and fetchmail work perfect with that account but mew stops ( or
> > the server stops) after:
> > 
> > <GREETING>
> > +OK POP3 server ready <3345246.14962.1107093090.post.webmailer.de>
> > 
> > 
> > <=SEND=>
> > CAPA
> > 
> > then nothing happens.
> > 
> > this account is hosted at strato.de maybe Germany's biggest web hoster.
> > everybody is welcome to try - I made an account for testing purpose:
> > 
> > email: test at example.com
> > pop-server post.strato.de
> > smtp-server post.strato.de
> > pop-user: test at example.com
> > passwrd: test
> 
> I have tested, and it works nicely on my system, Debian GNU/Linux
> sid i386 (very recent), Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-02-10) and Emacs 21.3
> (Debian package emacs21 21.3+1-9), Mew 4.2, with the following
> configuration
> 
> ;;; .mew.el
> (setq mew-config-alist
>       '(
> 	("default"
> 	 ("name" . "Test User")
> 	 ("user" . "test")
> 	 ("mail-domain" . "artslink.de")
> 	 ("smtp-mail-from" . nil)
> 	 ("smtp-server" . "post.strato.de")
> 	 ("pop-ssl" . nil)
> 	 ("pop-server" . "post.strato.de")
> 	 ("pop-user" . "test at example.com")
> 	 ("pop-auth" . apop) ;; pass also works, but not recommended
> 	 ("mailbox-type" . pop)
> 	 )
> 	 ;;
> 	))
> (setq mew-debug 'net)
> ;;; .mew.el ends here
> 
> I got the following in *Mew debug* buffer:
> 
> -----
> <GREETING>
> +OK POP3 server ready <11853476.500.1108152342 at example.com>
> 
> 
> <=SEND=>
> CAPA
> 
> <CAPA>
> +OK Capability list follows:
> EXPIRE NEVER
> PIPELINING
> RESP-CODES
> TOP
> USER
> UIDL
> IMPLEMENTATION MH/2.7.0b4+MVE
> .
> 
> 
> <=SEND=>
> APOP test at example.com 051cf48ba284f7268c42c2058ba0aa8a
> 
> <APOP>
> +OK User logged in, proceed.
> 
> 
> <=SEND=>
> LIST
> 
> <LIST>
> +OK 0 messages, listing follows
> .
> 
> 
> <=SEND=>
> QUIT
> 
> <QUIT>
> +OK Closing connection
> 
> 
> <POP SENTINEL>
> connection broken by remote peer
> -----
> 
> -- 
> Tatsuya Kinoshita


I really don't know what is wrong, with my setup. I had this problem with Mepis
(debian based) and now I'm running Suse and there is the same problem. I put
the above in my .mew.el and it doesn't work.

any suggestions what I could try?

martin