Re: Mails vanish after upgrading to potato
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:49:50PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote:
> Hello,
Hi!
>
> after happily setting up exim/fetchmail under slink (may be you remember
> the problems I had last week) I updated to potato today.
>
> Unfortunately I do now not get my mail on the local machine.
> After calling fetchmail I get several messages:
>
> reading message x of y (n header octets) (m body octets) . flushed
>
> The messages are deleted from the mail host but my mailbox remains untouched
> :-(.
>
> I suspect that the reason is the moved spool file.
>
fetchmail doesn't use the spool file, it talks directly to whatever SMTP
server you've got running.
> How to solve this problem?
Check to make sure that localhost is in the local_domains section of exim.conf,
and that exim recognizes it as a valid hostname. fetchmail is sending mails
to <your username>@localhost, and exim doesn't know what to do.
BTW, the debian-user list is more appropriate for these types of questions,
so I've set the Reply To to that.
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