[please wrap your lines to something reasonable] On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:41:38AM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my > previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good > reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. > > I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to > focus on something more basic, specifically getting fetchmail up and > running. It grabbed the 300-some mail in my box and put them... > somewhere. I don't know where. My user account, the one they should > have been sent to, has no mail. Neither does root.
Fetchmail should have pulled down your mail and delivered it to your
local user account's mail spool in /var/spool/mail/$USER. Pointing your
MUA at it should allow you to read your mail (mutt -f
/var/spool/mail/$USER, f'r example).
It's possible, I guess, that fetchmail delivered your mail to the wrong
user, but it should still be in /var/spool/mail/. Try 'ls -l' and see
if it look like your mail has been going elsewhere.
Also, try reading your /var/log/exim/mainlog to see what exim has been
doing with your mail.
> I can't even boot into Linux now because fetchmail will eat more of my
> email. Would someone please tell me what I need to do to get those
> 300-odd messages delivered so I can stop using Windows?
Worst case, start Linux in single user mode ('Linux 1' at the LILO
prompt) and use rcconf to disable the fetchmail service.
-rob
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