Can I suggest that you break down this problem into two parts. Firstly you need to determine whether your mail is being delivered to the right place. Can you send yourself a message and then read your mailbox any way you choose (though obviously not with qpopper). This could be by using Pine, running less or more on the file or even ftp the file to a local machine and view it there.
If the mail is getting not getting through then you should investigate the various mail delivery mechanisms you described. The second aspect is if mail does arrive where it should. In that case then qpopper is either not running or looking in the wrong place. Checking for this will involve reviewing both configuration and log files. Do e-mail again for any more specific points, either privately or to the list. Peter At 18:36 17/11/01 +0000, Rick Hoffman wrote: >I am very new to this so please be gentle, clear and concise and thank >you >in advance for any response. > >When using the following: > >$ telnet myHostName pop3 > >I am always getting: >"... has 0 visible messages (0 hidden) in 0 octets" > >even when I stick new test messages into my mailbox. > >My situation may seem rather obtuse to any of you. I am using a dial-up > >ISP in which I retrieve my mail from. On my system Fetchmail gets them, > >postfix processes them and hands them off to procmail which finally >delivers >to my mailboxes. My ISP mailing address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have >procmail >set up to recognize different users on my system addressed as: >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail spool is supposed to be >/var/spool/mail/hoffy(this being me, of course) >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail spool is supposed to be >/var/spool/mail/user1 >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail spool is supposed to be >/var/spool/mail/user2 >etc. > >When I installed Qpopper a "/var/spool/pop" directory was created. It >is in that directory >where it creates this temp file .user.pop during a session. Even if >I put a file called >"hoffy" in that directory with new messages in it I still get the same >result. > >FYI, I am using Debian and installed Qpopper with its package management > >system, like RPMs, only better :) so I only have executables installed, >therefore I did not >configure the program, it was all done for me. > >Can anybody help me here? Why am I never seeing any new messages? Can >I download >a message from my ISP's POP server then turn around and serve the same >message >to a user on my local network with my own POP server?
