Skippi wrote: > 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. > Have you looked in your home directory (skippi). Do an ls -al | less and look for directories named Mail or mail -- then check them out. I have experimented with mail (fetchmail, postfix, Elm, Pine, etc.) and I have stuff in each of these directories, but can't tell you which programs put them there (Mandrake 7.2). I also have a symbolic link from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail, with other stuff in there.
Since you are running fetchmail as skippi, my guess is you'd find your mail somewhere under your home directory. Just a stab in the dark. > /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? AFAIK, you don't need both of these -- they both perform basically the same functions. This could be part of the problem. On the other hand, postfix actually has some commands (links) named sendmail so that programs that send email by calling sendmail will work under postfix, but I don't believe you should see both of these starting. Which do you intend to run, postfix or sendmail? (I keep hearing that postfix is easier to configure -- since I don't have either running successfully, I can't confirm this.) > Just taking shots in the dark at this point..... Me too, hopefully something will help. > and trying to figure out that HUGE sendmail configuration file.... ugh.... >
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