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Re: fetchmail problem



On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:19:33AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine,
> I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation).
> 
> Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to
> be normal, but the downloaded messages are _NOT_ appended to my mail spool,
> and, fortunately, they are also not deleted from the mail spool on the ISP.
> 
> I see no error messages, no log file is created, and I haven't a clue.

If your fetchmail is passing messages to smail via port 25, try adding
a -S your.linux.box option.  (see manpage for details)

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