On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jeff wrote:
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> ok heres what i did ......
> first i ran fetchmailconf and got it running. fetchmail seems to be running
> good it downloads mesg's but not to /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge so im thinking
> maybe its the file permissions getting in the way. so i do
> "chmod a+rw /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge" so now everyone on the box has read
> write permission to that file, but that doesnt matter as im the only one on
> here.. still no good the mesg's im downloading just arent in there. instead
> of running fetchmail in daemon mode at this point im just using fetchmail to
> check once when i type the command cause ive lost alot of mail and have no idea
> if anything there was important..
Check /home/LeadingEdge for a file .procmailrc. Another process (procmail)
should be polling the /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge directory and shunting the
messages into /home/LeadingEdge/Mail by default. Point Pine at this directory
and all should be well again.
>
> ok and for pine i got it set up and it sends msgs but of course cant read the
> mail cause nothing is in /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge
>
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Procmail empties this directory!
See "man promail" & "man 5 procmailrc" for details of how to setup automatic
filters etc.
Muzza.
