Re: fetchmail

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

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> 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??

Make sure you have an MTA (exim, sendmail, etc) running. A
fetchmail log file would help you out also, but you don't have
one defined in your .fetchmailrc file. Check the manual on the
proper syntax for it. It's probably something simple like
this:

set logfile "~/.fetchmail.log"


Regards
Hall