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Re: fetchmail



--begin quoted message from dman, 
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 06:04:49AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
> | 
> | On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 05:53 , Bob Thibodeau wrote:
> | 
> | >Well, then this may or may not be usefull to you. Here are my
> | >samples (with obvious security holes patched).
> | 
> | Thanks, Bob.  What I really need to know right now is where the mail 
> | went, since it showed it getting every single one of them.
> 
> fetchmail does not deliver mail.  It hands it off to some other
> MTA/MDA for delivery.  If you specify an MDA, then it pipes the
> message to it.  If not it tries to connect to port 25 on localhost and
> give it to the MTA running on your local machine.  Where it goes after
> that depends on how you configured your MTA.

when I was having a similar problem, it was because of this.  The lo
interface hadn't been brought up, so fetchmail couldn't connect to
hand off the mail.

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