Re: MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)
>> 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?
Can you get the messages running fetchmail from command-line ?
Something like fetchmail -v for verbose output.
If I'm not wrong it should put mail in ´´/Mail .
--j
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