Re: Strange things like drwx--S--- with elm...
On 21, aug, 2000 at 09:28:24 +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> Eric G . Miller wrote:
> > Your description of fetchmail opening an elm display does not jibe
> > with my experience in using fetchmail.
>
> The reason for this was probably the following entry in my
> ~/.fetchmailrc:
> mda "/usr/bin/elm"
> fetchmail --version gave me the following explanation:
> Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/elm".
>
> > Generally fetchmail polls a POP or IMAP server for mail and delivers
> > it to the local smtp server.
>
> I guess you mean the mail transport agent (exim in my case). Please
> correct me if I'm wrong. I changed the mda option to /usr/sbin/exim
> anyway. Is this OK? I hope it will work.
It might, but I don't have any mda defined in my ~/fetchmailrc,
delivering to port 25 on localhost is the default.
My fetchmailrc:
set postmaster "<local_username>"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll <my_pop3_server> with proto POP3
user <userid> there with password <very_secret> is <local_username> here warnings 3600
antispam 571 550 501 554
It works very well, and has done so for a year now. :-)
HTH
Morten
> > The mail should be delivered to /var/mail/<user> if everything is
> > configured properly.
>
> This looks like /var/spool/mail/<user> in my case.
>
> > Do you have a ~/.forward file that may be causing weird behavior?
>
> No. It might have been just the wrong entry for mda. But I will see...
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Andreas
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