Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> S.Sekar saw fit to inform LI that:
>
> >When I fetchmail, I get to see the messages being downloaded but I could
> >not find them in /var/spool/mail/'username'.
>
> Pine looks in /var/spool/Mail (note the capital M) ... First go to pine
> settings and uncheck the "move read messages to mbox".
>
> Then look in ~mbox (pine -f ~mbox).
>
> Just see what's there and get back to the list.
>
>
Pine looks correctly at /var/spool/mail/username. When I give any other mail
location (like /home/username/Mail/inbox(kmail location), those mails are
read properly.
Can it happen that sendmail is not putttting the downloaded mails in
/var/spool/mail/username?
(Or which program takes over after fetchmail ?)
-sekar
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