Pradeep Sangunni rearranged electrons thusly:
> I did setup sendmail everything went on well,..but when i ran fetchmail it
> fetched all my mail but when i opened the email reader pine etc it said no
> messages even though it downloaded 6 messages the default dir of fetchmail
> is /var/spool/mail/psgn(user)
> but no luck.
> Is there a way of changing the dir where it(fetchmail) stores the mail
Fetchmail only hands it off to your mailserver (sendmail etc). If you are
running exim or postfix, the directory is likely to be /var/mail instead of
/var/spool/mail
Check your MTA configuration file
--suresh
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