MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

["Fulgham, Brent/SCO" <BFulgham@CH2M.com>]

Can anyone give me a short and sweet rundown of what I need configured to
get a working fetchmail system running?

I have SMail set up and working (I can send E-mail from my system, and I can
send/receive email between different accounts on my system).

Now I want fetchmail to grab mail from my ISP, but I can't seem to get it to
work properly.

I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password.  I also
added a line saying that I want "mda formail -s procmail".  I have a
.forward file in my home directory, and I have a .procmailrc file.

If I run fetchmail -c it checks my ISP and notifies me I have X number of
messages waiting.

However, I can't get it configured so that it retrieves the mail and sends
it to my account.  I can't tell if fetchmail is even running (I start it at
login using start-stop-daemon -S --exec fetchmail -- -d 5000) although it
shows up on TOP every now and then.

How can I check if it's running, and if it's retrieving any mail, where is
it putting it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...
-Brent


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