howdy -- I wasn't going to reply until I got the time to experiment more,
but since you asked good questions & I can answer them easily I'll bang
this out.
I am running fetchmail as the user (skippi) not as root. I am running it
either by typing "fetchmail" at the prompt or via pygmy, which simply calls
fetchmail (if I start pygmy from an Eterm I can watch the fetchmail output
in that terminal.
/var/spool/mail and /var/mail were both empty. I recently used touch to
create an empty file called skippi in /var/spool/mail as that was a
suggestion I received.
when I start up the computer I see the messages:
starting postfix
starting sendmail
Now, should I have both of those running? Is that part of the problem?
Just taking shots in the dark at this point.....
and trying to figure out that HUGE sendmail configuration file.... ugh....
thank you
Skippi
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, David Guntner wrote:
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:07:39 -0800 (PST)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] fetchmail / sendmail -- still no love, i got more
> work to do
>
> Skippi grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> > Thanks everyone. I got a couple of answers --
> > /var/spool/mail/skippi
> > and
> > /var/mail/<username>
> > and that is what I was afraid of. I don't have either of those files.
> > Evidently something with sendmail is still not set up correctly. I'm
> > going to play some more and I'm sure you will all get another post from
> > me in a few days once I have re-read everything you guys have sent me
> > and gone through this all again from the top.
>
> Exactly HOW are you running fetchmail? I assume that you're either
> running it from a shell directly, or periodically via a cron job.
>
> If from the shell, how are you logged in at the time that you run
> fetchmail? Are you logged in as skippi or another user? If via a cron
> job, which user created the crontab entry for that job? skippi? root?
> Something else?
>
> /var/mail is simply a soft link to /var/spool/mail, BTW. Look
> in /var/spool/mail. What files are there?
>
> --Dave "I've got a creeping feeling he's running it as root" Guntner
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