On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 08:37:21PM -0300, thus spake Richard Spencer:
> created a .fetchmailrc like this...
>
> poll pop3.uol.com.br proto pop3
> user [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass secret1
> fetchall keep
> poll pop.a001.sprintmail.com proto pop3
> user [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass secret2
> fetchall keep
> smtphost smtp.uol.com.br
Try commenting out the smtp line above and see what truns up in
the mailbox!
>
> I noted that my mail for the first account was
> ending up in /var/spool/mail/$USER and was
> confident that all of the mail would end up there.
>
> I thought I'd have to change my .muttrc line:
>
> set spoolfile='/home/$USER/Mail/inbox'
> to set spoolfile='/var/spool/mail/$USER'
>
> but anyhow was satisfied that the mail ended up
> SOMEWHERE.
>
> But I was wrong; the mail for the second account
> didn't end up in /var/spool/mail/$USER
>
> I put the following in .muttrc so that I could
> read my incoming mail, but after changing to
> another directory, couldn't easily change back
> (which I could easily do when /home/$USER/Mail/inbox
> held inbound mail.)
>
> Can anyone tell me:
> 1) where the mail from sprintmail might be?
Have a look in ~/tmp and in /usr/tmp
or are they being stashed in the mail queue?
> 2) which files to check for clues?
/var/spool/maillog would be a good place to start
>
> I can tell you I'm running Red Hat 6.0 on a Pentium
> Laptop, and haven't taken any steps to configure
> sendmail, although it always runs as a process.
> 430 ? S 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
Take a look at Martin Holland's NoetherLinux pages which are
good for configuring sendmail and fetchmail.
http://www.noether.freeserve.co.uk
There is also a neat "Install sendmail" pel script which
automates the configuration to some degree:- try
http://members.xoom.com/xeer/index.html
HTH
Glyn M.
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