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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:14:59 +0100
From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
To: Jim Barker <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail
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On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 07:33:40AM -0700, Jim Barker wrote:
> I have a small problem with not knowing where mail that sendmail is
> getting from fetchmail is going.  I finally got fetchmail to retrieve
> mail from my POP3 host and redirecting it to port 25 on localhost.  Now I
> don't know where it goes from there.  It doesn't seem to be in the user's
> directory.  A little background:
> 
> this machine uses user-ppp dialup to ibm.net
> this machine also uses fetchmail to get POP3 mail
> localhost:  lunchbox.ibm.net
> user's name on localhost:  jimbark
> user's name on POP3:  jimbark
> 
> jimbark.mc file:
> 
>         VERSIONID(`lunchbox.ibm.net.mc version 1.0')
>         OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl
>         FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
>         MAILER(local)dnl
>         MAILER(smtp)dnl
>         Cwlocalhost
>         Cwlunchbox.ibm.net
>         MASQUERADE_AS(`ibm.net')dnl
>         FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
>         FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
>         FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl
>         FEATURE(nodns)dnl
>         define(SMART_HOST, `smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net')
>         Dmlunchbox.ibm.net
>         define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`lunchbox.ibm.net')dnl
>         define(`confDELIVERY_MODE',`deferred')dnl
> 
> this mc file is how it is reccomended on the FreeBSD FAQ concerning mail
> and dialup account's.
> 
> Any suggestion's would be great, thanks.
> 

Well, unless you've done something weird, mail is locally delivered into
/var/mail/$USER.  Did you try running 'mail'?

Alternatively, sendmail might (for whatever reason) not know to deliver the
mail locally - try running 'mailq' and see if your messages are hung up in
the queue.

HTH,

	Scott.

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