Re: fetchmail, imap from FastMail, why is mail i n separate folder ?

On 2026-08-18 06:09, Roger Price wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, Chime Hart wrote:
> 
>> Well, Roger, while I think my issue is fetchmail related, maybe you 
>> will know?
>> For at least 2years while getting an imap receiving FastMail, mail in 
>> Alpine is
>> ending up in a separate fastmail folder instead of incoming folders as 
>> an
>> inbox. Here in Debian SID my fetchmail is in /usr/bin/fetchmail. If 
>> you have
>> any suggestions, please pass them along. Thanks so much in advance
>> Chime
> 
> I suggest starting a new thread with a new subject line.
> 
> It would be helpful if you showed us your configuration file.
> 
> What is your Mail Transfer Agent ? Run this command and show us your 
> result :
> 
> root@titan ~ ss -tlpn sport 25
> State   Recv-Q  Send-Q Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port  Process
> LISTEN  0       20         127.0.0.1:25         0.0.0.0:*  
> users:(("exim4",pid=1573,fd=5))
> LISTEN  0       20             [::1]:25            [::]:*  
> users:(("exim4",pid=1573,fd=6))
> 
> It might be useful to show us the output of systemctl status <pid>, 
> (1573 in my
> case).
> 
> Roger

Yesterday I updated bookworm to trixie and unfortunately selected 'keep 
the old configuration file' for a few dovecot conf files.
This caused dovecot to refuse to start.
Fortunately apt kept the new files with the extension "ucf-dist" and 
with the help of the AI was able to locate the faults and put things 
back together.
At one stage getmail was sending mail to dovecot deliver OK but deliver 
was putting mail in the wrong place.
This seems similar to the problem cited so I thought I'd mention it.

mick

mick