Re: sendmail/fetchmail
add|ct|on <slaythe@innocent.com> writes:
> ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail
> from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors
> logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages
> it just sits there on the first one and does nothing.
> to test my setup, i tried getting mail from a different pop3 account,
> on another server (friend's account), and it supposedly fetched (did not
> hang that time at all, completed without errors or incident), BUT,
> stranger still, i have no idea WHERE it put the mail if it really did
> fetch it. i ran fetchmail as root, and root had no mail. i was unable to
> locate this supposedly fetched mail anywhere on my system.
If you posted your /root/.fetchmailrc this could probably clear the
things up.
> another odd tidbit is this: sendmail runs on boot, of course, but if i
> check with ps x a while later its mysteriously GONE. i restart it, and
> check, and its there, but again check later and its gone AGAIN. someone
> please tell me why it keeps disappearing on me and i'll be very
> thankful.
In my understanding sendmail is not a daemon. It gets called whenever
mail needs to be sent, but I may be wrong. I am using exim instead of
sendmail, and it doesn't seem to run residently.
--
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
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