Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

[Manegold <manegold@uni-trier.de>]

Timmy Douglas wrote:
> 
> "John-Mark" <jmj@event-horizon.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello all
> > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like
> > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I
> > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to
> > connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be
> > passing the mail to exim and  therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj
> > mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also
> > if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it?
> > Thanks for all help which is much appreciated.
> 
> i would start by telling fetchmail to be verbose.. fetchmail -v?
> maybe you could figure out what it is doing from that.
> 
> heh.. i think i've seen you before ;)

Hi!
Is exim running, or if it's started by inetd, as per default I think, do
you have inetd running and exim set up correctly to be started by inetd?

Thorsten