Re: fetchmail

[F Zimmermann <fzimmerm@pugh.bip.bham.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, F Zimmermann wrote:
> >
> > I copied it to ~/.fetchmailrc and run the test option in fetchmailconf
> > (after sending a mail to an echo server). everything looks fine. Fetchmail
> > says it fetching the mail and the deleting it from the server. But i can't
> > find them on my system, neither in /var/spool/mail/frank nor in my home
> > directory.
> >
> > Any hints on where to look for them and what might go wrong??
>
>     Do you have a .procmailrc file?
>
>     Look in your mail logs to see where your MTA delivered the mail.
>
>     Mike

No I don't have a .procmailrc yet. I checked /var/log but could not find
any hint on where they might have gone. As I said, the strange thing is
that it did work and than suddenly I did not recieve an mails and checked
what fetchmail is doing.

Frank