From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 06:28:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A885D16A417 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:28:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ozzmosis@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F210113C48A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:28:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ozzmosis@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 9454 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2007 06:28:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.215.130.189) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 4 Oct 2007 06:28:12 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9EBB41704D; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:28:10 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:28:10 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071004062810.GA2879@ozzmosis.com> References: <20071001005437.GA15279@bsd.remdog.net> <20071002191117.GA32593@ozzmosis.com> <20071002203711.GA12392@ayn.mi.celestial.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071002203711.GA12392@ayn.mi.celestial.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: Mutt Help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:28:14 -0000 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: : Connected to 68.178.232.99 but connection died. (#4.4.2) Regards Andrew