Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:11:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Jim Barker <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <19980923211129.C21115@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <PIFOPDCCDEEKBAAA@my-dejanews.com> References: <PIFOPDCCDEEKBAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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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. Fix your broken mailer to wrap lines before 80 characters first <g> Anyway, it probably wouldn't go into their home directory, if that's what you meant, it will go into /var/mail/$USER. Have you tried running `fetchmail -v' to show the SMTP conversation, to make sure nothing is going wrong there? > 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 So in this case your mail should be in /var/mail/jimbark -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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