A step backwards - and now a bit annoyed

[Andrew Mathews]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
<snip>
> I've received quite a bit of response to this thread, which which would
> be pleasing if any of it were of the slightest use to me.  The one thing
> I did try was downloading Netscape 7 and trying that.  The behavior is
> identical.
> 
> I do agree with the one reply which indicated it looked more like an
> application problem than a distro problem per se, so I'm not going to
> replace the distro, I'm going to ditch it.  Many of the rest of the
> replies seemed more intent on pushing a favorite distro than paying any
> attention to the actual problem.
> 
> To repeat:  Netscape (including 7) cannot fetch my wife's mail from
> the ISP (Pac Bell); fetchmail can, and that gets the mail into Netscape's
> Inbox.  But she cannot then move the mail to any of her local folders --
> it just keeps trying forever.  She wants to go back to using netscape
> the way she did on Windows, and it looks like the only way to do that
> is to actually run Windows.
> 
> I'm out of time or patience for dinking with this any more.  I'll be
> too busy gritting my teeth and installing Windoze.  At least I know what
> to expect.  Grrrrrrrrrr.
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 

Have you considered that if it's happening regardless of the version of 
Netscape, and the distro, that perhaps it's a permissions problem 
locally that has *nothing* to do with the application or the distro?
Is fetchmail running as her UID to write locally or as root?
If the permissions are incorrect then there's no way that it can write 
to the local file when retrieving, moving, or any other manipulative 
method. The files in her mail directory must have ownership and groups 
set properly such as:
-rwx------    1 andy     andy       676919 Sep 11 14:36 Linux-Users
-rw-rw-r--    1 andy     andy         2085 Sep 11 14:36 Linux-Users.msf
It's worth checking before doing a wholesale replacement.
-- 
Andrew Mathews
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