fetchmail or exim - what is failing?

[Sandip P Deshmukh <deshmukh@escortsmumbai.com>]

hello all

so far, i have set up exim properly. it is able to send messages. i also 
used fetchmailconf and it created a .fetchmailrc file in ~. i have 
checked and there is no .procmailrc or .forward file in ~.

.fetchmailrc:

# Configuration created Fri Oct 25 13:38:42 2002 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "sandip"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 5
poll 192.168.100.1 with proto POP3
     user 'deshmukh' there with password 'xxx' is 'deshmukh' here

etc.

now, here is output of fetchmail -c:

5 messages for deshmukh at 192.168.100.1 (17323 octets).
etc.


now, at this time, /var/log/exim/mainlog does not contain any 
information regarding fetchmail's attempts. i wonder how does fetchmail 
-c not get logged in /var/log/exim/mainlog

now, finally, hoping that fetchmail will get the messages for me, i ran 
fetchmail. here is what i get in /var/log/exim/mainlog:

2002-10-29 12:15:13 verify failed for SMTP recipient deshmukh@localhost 
from <debian-user-request@lists.debian.org> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] 
U=sandip
2002-10-29 12:15:13 verify failed for SMTP recipient deshmukh@localhost 
from <debian-user-request@lists.debian.org> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] 
U=sandip
2002-10-29 12:15:13 verify failed for SMTP recipient deshmukh@localhost 
from <debian-user-request@lists.debian.org> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] 
U=sandip
2002-10-29 12:15:13 verify failed for SMTP recipient deshmukh@localhost 
from <debian-user-request@lists.debian.org> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] 
U=sandip
2002-10-29 12:15:13 verify failed for SMTP recipient deshmukh@localhost 
from <deshmukh@escortsmumbai.com> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] U=sandip

now, /var/mail/sandip is a 0byte file. there is no mbox file in ~.

is it that exim is playing the spoilsport? any remedies?

thanx

- sandip

ps - when i check mail using mozilla, none of the messages listed above 
are downloaded