General mail setup

[nimennor@suffolk.lib.ny.us]

Hi, 
Sometimes when I check my mail with fetchmail I see the messages fly by:
reading... flushed.... and so on.  But when I go to
/var/spool/mail/$USER, it's not there -- I've lost many important
messages this way. Can somebody advise me what to do?
Also, how can I setup pppd so that some ( ip-up ) script is executed -- 
get mail, news, etc...  I read the PPP-FAQ, but they didn't go into
that.

[I use Debian 1.3.1]


Thank you very much for your help, 
Nikita



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