Re: Problems with Mail
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:37:36PM +0000, Chris Hoover wrote:
> 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?
If the smail configuration is "queue_only" then doing a "runq"
will "run the queue" and deliver the mail after fetchmail has popped it.
Hope it is as simple as that. :)
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jkern@klis.com Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
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