Re: Problems with Mail

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Chris Hoover <choover@home.com> writes:
| I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone
| could help me resolve the problem.
| 
| I have 2 linux boxes networked together.  My  production box also has
| the connection to the internet.  It is running all of my servers, and
| pulling mail down from my isp with fetchmail.  I'm wanting to be able to
| d/l my mail from my production box to my development box, but am not
| able to get it to work.
| 
| My first attempt was to use fetchmail.  It seemed to pull the mail down,
| but it never showed up in my /var/spool/mail/<user> file.  After
| examining the system, it appears that is is stuck in
| /var/spool/smail/incoming.  Does anyone have any idea why smail is not
| delivering it?
| 
| My temp solution is to use netscape mail program to d/l the mail to my
| development box.  But I really don't want to be stuck with this as the
| solution.
| 
| BTW, I really don't want to directly d/l the mail to my development box,
| since I can't reach it from outside my house (it's on a private network,
| using ipmasq to get out).
| 
| Ideas?

There's nothing in your logs (/var/log/mail.*,/var/log/smail/*)?
Usually problems like this are related to host name resolution.

Gary