add|ct|on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail > from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors > logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages > it just sits there on the first one and does nothing. > to test my setup, i tried getting mail from a different pop3 account, > on another server (friend's account), and it supposedly fetched (did not > hang that time at all, completed without errors or incident), BUT, > stranger still, i have no idea WHERE it put the mail if it really did > fetch it. i ran fetchmail as root, and root had no mail. i was unable to > locate this supposedly fetched mail anywhere on my system. If you posted your /root/.fetchmailrc this could probably clear the things up.
> another odd tidbit is this: sendmail runs on boot, of course, but if i > check with ps x a while later its mysteriously GONE. i restart it, and > check, and its there, but again check later and its gone AGAIN. someone > please tell me why it keeps disappearing on me and i'll be very > thankful. In my understanding sendmail is not a daemon. It gets called whenever mail needs to be sent, but I may be wrong. I am using exim instead of sendmail, and it doesn't seem to run residently. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
