Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:28:10 +1000 From: andrew clarke <ozzmosis@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mutt Help Message-ID: <20071004062810.GA2879@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20071002203711.GA12392@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <20071001005437.GA15279@bsd.remdog.net> <20071002191117.GA32593@ozzmosis.com> <20071002203711.GA12392@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as > >> daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3 > >> mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the > >> .muttrc file which will result in Mutt automatically retrieving mail > >> from fetchmail. Any help would be appreciated. > > >By default, Fetchmail will put your mail wherever $MAIL points to. > >Usually this is in a file named /var/mail/username, where username is > >your login name. > > I thought that the default for fetchmail was to pass the messages > to the system's MTA (postfix, sendmail, etc.), not to attempt > delivery itself. Yes, but how mail gets from fetchmail to the main spool was not critical. I did not want to complicate the process in my reply. Incidentally the OP's e-mail address is/was failing: <rem@bsd.remdog.net>: Connected to 68.178.232.99 but connection died. (#4.4.2) Regards Andrew
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