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Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.



On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -0000, thus spake John-Mark:
> Hello all
> I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like
> eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I
> can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to
> connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be
> passing the mail to exim and  therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj
> mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also
> if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it?
> Thanks for all help which is much appreciated.
> jm

Sorry - one other thought.  In your .fetchmailrc put a line like this

set syslog

That will send information to /var/log/maillog, which should enable you to
discover exactly what fetchmail is doing!

Do persevere - you hve the winning combination there!

Good luck

Glyn M.


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