To see where the files go make a file .mailfilter in the users home dir with the following content:
logfile "mailfilter-log.txt" log "========" After fetching mail it will tell you where exactly it wrote the mailbox. If its the wrong folder add the following line to the .mailfiler to "$HOME/Maildir" with Maildir the exact name of your maildir folder I use a similar setup with fetchmail but I use the following syntax poll pop3adress protocol pop3 user "username" there with password "pass" mda "USER=homeuser SENDER=%F RECIPIENT=%T /usr/bin/maildrop -V 1 -f '%F' -d homeuser" It might help On 4 Jun 2002 at 12:11, Samuel Penn wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Oops... this should have gone to the list, not just Juha... > > > On Monday 03 June 2002 21:13, Juha Saarinen wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Samuel Penn wrote: > > > - From what I can gather, a sensible way of doing this is to > > > use fetchmail to get my email from various POP3 servers, > > > then filter the email through maildrop so that mailing lists > > > etc go into the correct IMAP folders. > > > > Why not just set up forwarding of mail on the other POP3 servers, to your > > server? > > I don't own the POP3 servers, the only way I can retrieve mail > from them is via POP3, hence the use of fetchmail. > > I could set up fetchmail to forward the email to the local SMTP > port after it has been downloaded, but Courier smptd gives an > error when I try this. e.g.: > > sam@wotan:~> fetchmail > 1 message for samuel.penn at mail1-gui.server.ntli.net (2191 octets). > reading message 1 of 1 (2191 octets) ..fetchmail: SMTP error: 513 Syntax > error. > fetchmail: can't even send to sam! > > > If I tell fetchmail to use the maildrop mda, then I get no error, > but the email vanishes into (as far as I can tell) nowhere. Maildrop > is run (I can tell from the debug), but the email is lost. > > When using maildrop, fetchmail is set up as follows: > > poll pop.cable.ntl.com proto pop3: > user samuel.penn with pass password > and wants mda '/opt/courier/bin/maildrop -v 5 -d sam' > > Since the email is coming from a specific account, I always want > it to go to mailbox of user sam (then get filtered into subfolders > within that mailbox). > > I'm not sure whether it needs to be running in embedded mode here. > > - -- > Be seeing you, > Sam. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8/KBQsRrcOEdQJ70RAtcQAKCJMMhBHupzOMIqMTOV38aHcf3aVACgvzD3 > BVr1C6vQNmQDwPTwAZYX/g4= > =+dqR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
