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Re: Lost Mail??



On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is it possible to tell sendmail where to store new incoming mail. Im using
> sendmail along with fetchmail and after my mail is retrieved from my isp, I
> cant seem to find it. I use mutt to read my mail and have mutt looking in
> /var/spool/mail/neutec but there is never any mail there. Fetchmail informs
> me of receiving new mail so Im pretty sure its on my machine somewhere. Has
> anyone ever had this and if so what needs to be changed to fix it?
> Thanks Guys

Fetchmail/exim will throw your mail away silently if you don't have
'localhost' in your local_domains.  I assume the same would happen if
sendmail didn't have 'localhost' in $=w (though I've never tested this).

What's in your /etc/mail/local-host-names file?

-Dan

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