RE: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

["Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au>]

Thanks,

I deleted the exin.conf, and reconfigured exim, then made the change you
suggested :

  file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}

  directory = /home/${local_part}/Maildir

and added

  maildir_format


When I run fetchmail, it connects and recieves, but the mails do not appear
in the Maildir folder.

They do however, appear in /var/spool/exim (I think).

The log says, that /home/mat/Maildir is not a regular file and the message
is frozen.

Why is this ?
I definitly do have 'directory=' not 'file='

Any ideas ?


Thanks

Matt


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Auke Jilderda [mailto:jilderda@dds.nl] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 7:00 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap
> 
> 
> I find your message to be a bit confusing but I think you'll 
> want to do the following:
> 
> - Fetchmail is probably configured to hand over the incoming mail to
>   Exim.
> - Exim is default configured to deliver to mbox format so you'll need 
>   to reconfigure it by replacing:
>       file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
>   with:
>       directory = /home/${local_part}/mail
>       maildir_format
>   in /etc/exim/exim.conf, under "local_delivery:".
> 
> And when wondering what the heck a process is doing, you 
> might want to try exploring /var/log for more info. :-)
> 
> 
> Auke
>