3. Troubleshooting

[In Japanese]

3.1 Mew says, "connection failed, connection refused"

Mew receives messages via POP. In default, Mew assumes that local host has a POP server. If you would like to use external POP servers(Ex. pop.foo.com in the example), put the following setting in ~/.mew.el.

(setq mew-pop-server "pop.foo.com")

If you would like to use mail spool on the local host, put the following setting in ~/.mew.el. More information is available in contrib/00readme.

(setq mew-mailbox-type 'mbox)
(setq mew-mbox-command "incm")
(setq mew-mbox-command-arg "-d /path/to/mbox")

3.2 Mew says, "TOO LARGE, TRUNCATED BY Mew"

Mew limits the size of receiving messages to 54KB in default. If Mew receives messages more than 54KB, the above message is shown to inform you that they are truncated.

These truncated messages are marked with 'T'. You can receive the entire message with 'I'.

If you would like to remove this limitation, put the folloing in ~/.mew.el.

(setq mew-pop-size 0) 

3.3 Messages with 'T' mark are strange

Messages with 'T' mark are partly truncated. Please refer to "3.2 Mew says, "TOO LARGE, TRUNCATED BY Mew"".

3.4 Mew says, "Unknown service "POP3""

Please confirm POP3 service is registered in /etc/services. Red Hat Linux and one of distributions based on Red Hat Linux(TurboLinux 6.5 or earlier, Vine Linux 2.1 or earlier, and so on) register POP3 service as 'pop-3'. If you have the 'pop-3' entry, put the following in ~/.mew.el.

(setq mew-pop-port "pop-3")

If you use mew-config-alist, you should set pop-port in it.

(setq mew-config-alist
      '(("default"
	 ...
	 ("pop-port" . "pop-3"))))

3.5 Though I'd like to get messages via POP, the prompt "APOP Password:" is shown

Mew gets messages via APOP in default. If you would like to get messages via POP, put the following in ~/.mew.el.

(setq mew-pop-auth 'pass)

In case of mew-config-alist:

(setq mew-config-alist
      '(("default"
	 ...
	 ("pop-auth" . pass))))