[ale] Q. on debugging 'fetchmail'

[jmmills at avana.net]

'Lo ALErs -

Advice here is bringing my new net setup together, and I 
have fetched up on the next rock, naturally.

Now that I load ('insmod') both my drivers in 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network, the net comes up fine.

A bit of work on '~/.pinerc' got outgoing mail working.

I still have one [RIBBIT!]* problem: 'fetchmail' seems 
to be finding the (two) pop servers OK, spooling down 
the mail, but sending it into space, or at any rate not 
into my local mail spool! I have a set of unread 
messages from my last working round of 'fetchmail', but 
no new ones. Meanwhile checking the ISPs' web-based mail 
servers shows that the messages have been deleted at 
their end, presumably after 'fetchmail' thought it had 
delivered them to my local mail server. All messages 
waiting in my spools were apparently blown into space! 
#8-(

How can I debug this? 

Also - Eric, thanks for setting me right on 
'modules.conf' usage -- I had it backwards and was 
trying to use 'above' instead of 'below': I cruised past 
'below' in man pages without firing a brain cell, even 
though 'above' didn't _sound_ like the answer. I'll try 
this next round -- force loading is too cobby even for 
me to live with!

TIA.
 - Mills

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* Note for the 'maturity challenged' - refers to a R'n'R 
song, _Freddy_the_Freaky_Frog_, wherein the lead figure 
_almost_ turns into a prince, except for one small 
remaining problem. RIBBIT!!


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