RE: Lost Mail??
My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there?
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Brosemer [mailto:odin@linuxfreak.com]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:23 PM
To: Jay Kelly
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Lost Mail??
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is it possible to tell sendmail where to store new incoming mail. Im using
> sendmail along with fetchmail and after my mail is retrieved from my isp,
I
> cant seem to find it. I use mutt to read my mail and have mutt looking in
> /var/spool/mail/neutec but there is never any mail there. Fetchmail
informs
> me of receiving new mail so Im pretty sure its on my machine somewhere.
Has
> anyone ever had this and if so what needs to be changed to fix it?
> Thanks Guys
Fetchmail/exim will throw your mail away silently if you don't have
'localhost' in your local_domains. I assume the same would happen if
sendmail didn't have 'localhost' in $=w (though I've never tested this).
What's in your /etc/mail/local-host-names file?
-Dan
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