Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. saw fit to inform me that:
>
> Yeah like my sendmail 8.9 got whacked all by itself. I still don't know
> what
> happened. A post mortem was required but I got 8.10 so I just let it go.
Anyway, you got it working. Hoping for when you'll junk outlook express
(at least till the I LO VE Y O U worm floats around) :)
> Okay understood, but what I got was an oveflowing mqueue when I had only
> sent one single message. Do incoming messages have a bearing on mqueue ?
?!? Maybe a sent mail was looping there. Is it ok now?
> So in short it is mutt/pine to local mailbox to mqueue to internet.
> Right ?
yes. when sending mail
pine -> sendmail -> queue in mqueue if disconnected -> send to internet
when receiving
internet -> fetchmail -> mda (sendmail or procmail say) -> mutt
> Will fetchmail hand over the mails one by one or will it download all
one by one. try fetching some 20 mails, and keeping mutt or pine open in
the same login on another console (alt f1, alt f2 etc)
> mailbox ? Will (or should) mails downloaded by fetchmail appear in the
> local
> mailbox immediately or only when all the mails have been downloaded
immediately
> Where do I read this ? Which command/file shows this ? I have yet to see
Do a fetchmail and see the output - will be so if you are running it in
the foreground. If you are running fetchmail in the background (say thru
ip-up.local) you wont see it
> > Or do you mean "all the mail has been SENT"?
> That too, please. I usually check mqueue.
when /usr/sbin/sendmail -q finishes the mails have been sent (one or two
may be queued for later delivery if the server at the other end is not
responding)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
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