Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone | could help me resolve the problem. | | I have 2 linux boxes networked together. My production box also has | the connection to the internet. It is running all of my servers, and | pulling mail down from my isp with fetchmail. I'm wanting to be able to | d/l my mail from my production box to my development box, but am not | able to get it to work. | | My first attempt was to use fetchmail. It seemed to pull the mail down, | but it never showed up in my /var/spool/mail/<user> file. After | examining the system, it appears that is is stuck in | /var/spool/smail/incoming. Does anyone have any idea why smail is not | delivering it? | | My temp solution is to use netscape mail program to d/l the mail to my | development box. But I really don't want to be stuck with this as the | solution. | | BTW, I really don't want to directly d/l the mail to my development box, | since I can't reach it from outside my house (it's on a private network, | using ipmasq to get out). | | Ideas?
There's nothing in your logs (/var/log/mail.*,/var/log/smail/*)? Usually problems like this are related to host name resolution. Gary
