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? I
> can'd find it anywhere...
> Did I lost my downloaded messages? What am I doing wrong?
Yes you did. Try fetchmail with the option -k (k for keep, the messages
will be not deleted on the server, good for testing a new config) and
-vvvv for being very verbose. In my Mandrake 6.0 installation sendmail
denied the relaying acces on my own computer, that's was very funny. B-) I
used my sendmail.cf from my old Suse distribution. I restarted sendmail
and everything was fine.
> My .fetchmailrc is like that:
>
> poll mailserver
> protocol pop3
> username myusername
> password mypassword
> forcecr
The parameter for your localname is missin, but fetchmail will(???) assume
your username for it.
> 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?
I think the faulty part of the system is /etc/sendmail.cf. But without
/var/log/mail is only guessing for beginnners. (Whow, is my english bad.
B-)
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