>
>
> If fetchmail/exim is working properly your mails get stored locally in
> /var/mail/tony (or /var/spool/mail/tony which is really the same file
> as /var/spool/mail is linked to /var/mail). Traditional unix programs
> like mail and mutt and... look there to get at your mail per default,
> so no need to configure them:)
>
> Forgive me my curiousity, but are those glitches we saw before in the
> fetchmail log (fetchmail: rejected..., & fetchmail: no local matches...)
> still there? And if not, did you change anything to your fetchmailrc?
Well, it seems that there are some glitches yet:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v
fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (protocol POP3) at Sat,
16 Dec
2000 13:18:45 -0500 (EST)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
fetchmail: POP3> USER arodriguez
fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK arodriguez is welcome here
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 2675
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for arodriguez at postoffice.worldnet.att.net (2675 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2675
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2675 octets
reading message 1 of 1 (2675 octets)
About to rewrite Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rewritten version is Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fetchmail: analyzing Received line:
Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6])
by mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.10 201-229-121-110) with SMTP
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:05:52 +0000
fetchmail: line rejected, mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net is not an alias of the
mailserver
About to rewrite Sender: tony
Rewritten version is Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About to rewrite From: A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rewritten version is From: A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
About to rewrite To: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rewritten version is To: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
About to rewrite CC: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Rewritten version is CC: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
n.org>
About to rewrite Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Rewritten version is Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
About to rewrite Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rewritten version is Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to tony
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:18:53 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-debian Hello tony at debian [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2675
fetchmail: SMTP< 250
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically
correct
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
#*******************fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK id=147Lv3-00009w-00
not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK arodriguez InterMail POP3 server signing off.
fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 debian closing connection
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
You have new mail in /var/mail/tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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Now, notice that the changes that I made to .fetchmailrc shoud have taken care
of
that, here is my .fetchmailrc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .fetchmailrc
# Configuration created Tue Dec 5 14:18:33 2000 by fetchmailconf
# and later edited by hand by me, tony, on the 8-dec-2000
set postmaster "tony"
set no bouncemail
set properties ""
poll postoffice.worldnet.att.net aka worldnet.att.net, the-sphere.org
with proto POP3
user "arodriguez" is user "tony" here
password "not-this-one-of-course"
options keep
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
