From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 23 13:17:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05761 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05689 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zLvG5-0005aA-00; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:11:29 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:11:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jim Barker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <19980923211129.C21115@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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