Greetings!
I am new to the list, but not as new to Linux. I just installed Mandrake
7.0, which I am liking extremely well. I have been working with getting the
console based mail system to operate so I can conserve resources, etc., but
I am experiencing some sort of disconnect that I haven't been able to sort
out yet.
I intend to use either Mutt or Pine, preferrably the former. Mutt is
installed and working, and it will send messages out, which suggests that
Sendmail is also working at least in part. I can send messages out to
myself at my ISP or Excite. I can also use fetchmail to retrieve the
messages from my ISP, and I see them all coming in and registering on the
console, but then there is the disconnect. I understand that Fetchmail is
supposed to hand the messages off to either Procmail or Sendmail for
delivery to my system mailbox. I have installed the latest Procmail and
made .procmailrc and .forward files, but apparently nothing is happening. I
get an error message when I open either Pine or Mutt to the effect that
/var/spool/mail/$USER doesn't exist, which suggests that Procmail/Sendmail
hasn't functioned correctly to create the mailbox. So, I see the messages
coming down from the ISP server, but they disappear into the ether, I guess.
Does anyone have any insight? Is there something specific to Mandrake that
would bear on this? Does Mandrake 7.0 have default mail programs it uses?
Thanks!
Don J.
Do good stuff!
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