brian moore wrote: > Delete the 'smtphost' line. Unless you really want to snarf mail from > email.psu.edu and send it to smtp.psu.edu....
hmm, it still eats everything. I'm starting to think that sendmail is the problem. Here's the new .fetchmailrc, done from scratch: # Configuration created Sat Aug 19 13:23:41 2000 by fetchmailconf set postmaster "hawk" set bouncemail set properties "" poll email.psu.edu with proto POP3 user reh18 there with password [censored] is reh18 here options keep etchmail: 5.3.3 querying email.psu.edu (protocol POP3) at Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:38:15 -0400 (EDT) fetchmail: POP3< +OK UCB Pop server (version 1.831+timeout+afsauth) at f07n05 starting. fetchmail: POP3> USER reh18 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for reh18. fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK reh18 has 5 message(s) (13361 octets). fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 5 13361 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 is the last message seen. 5 messages for reh18 at email.psu.edu (13361 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 5 messages (13361 octets) fetchmail: POP3< 1 1111 fetchmail: POP3< 2 2126 fetchmail: POP3< 3 3256 fetchmail: POP3< 4 4184 fetchmail: POP3< 5 2684 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1111 octets reading message 1 of 5 (1111 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 fac13.ds.psu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:38:19 -0400 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-fac13.ds.psu.edu Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP< 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VERB fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BODY=7BIT SIZE=1111 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 NAA07679 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2126 octets reading message 2 of 5 (2126 octets) fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BODY=7BIT SIZE=2126 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 NAA07682 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3> RETR 3 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3256 octets reading message 3 of 5 (3256 octets) fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BODY=7BIT SIZE=3256 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 NAA07686 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3> RETR 4 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4184 octets reading message 4 of 5 (4184 octets) fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BODY=7BIT SIZE=4184 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 NAA07688 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3> RETR 5 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2684 octets reading message 5 of 5 (2684 octets) fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BODY=7BIT SIZE=2684 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 NAA07693 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at f07n05 signing off. fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: SMTP< 221 fac13.ds.psu.edu closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 Done. If I'm reading this correctly, it means that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is getting the mail, which is as it should be. But I still get nothing as mail. Investigating further, I've found that mailing to myself (mail hawk, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) also does not generate mail. Ideas? inspiration? hawk