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> 
> fetchmail does download the messages, but they do not appear in the
> appropriate users mail. dovecot and postfix are up and running.

can you post your fetchmailrc (minus your username and password?


> When I manually call fetchmail (with the keep option) - I can watch it
> download messages, yet they aren't delivered locally - they just seem to
> disappear without a trace or log. (Can't see anything in /var/log/messages
> that refers to fetchmail.)

check your mail log (some variation of /var/log/maillog or
/var/log/mail.log or /var/log/mail/*.log) for errors.


> My ***major*** concern is that fetchmail downloaded approx. 40 messages and
> deleted from the server, without delivering them. (When I was silly enough
> to run it without the keep option, as daemon earlier.)
> 
> Is it possible that postfix has these messages stored somewhere?

try 'mailq' to see if there are any messages in the queue.

marty

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