On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Felipe Almeida wrote:
> I have a doubt here! I used fetchmail do grab my mail from my ISP POP3
> mail server and it did grab them. But when I opened Pine to read the
> messages it didn't show them. I looked at the /var/spool/mail/myusername
> and the messages weren't there. Where did fetchmail put my messages?
You have almost certainly misconfigured your mail server (sendmail or
postfix).
> I can'd find it anywhere...
> Did I lose my downloaded messages?
Possible.
> My .fetchmailrc is like that:
>
> poll mailserver
> protocol pop3
> username myusername
> password mypassword
> forcecr
Shouldn't you add "is [localusername]" ?
> Sendmail is running on port 25. I use Mandrake Linux 6.0 (Venus).
> Somebody here said that postfix is the new mail daemon. Is it that true?
Not the, but a.
Postfix is an alternative to Sendmail, with many advantages but also a
couple of disadvantages. The choice is up to you, we're including both.
To find out which you're running, telnet localhost 25.
LLaP
bero
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