[Sussex] fetchmail

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Wed Oct 20 20:08:20 UTC 2004


Hi Dom

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:12:26PM +0100, Dominic Clay wrote:
> Just trying to configure fetchmail on my gentoo box.  It all seems to work,
> but I cant find the emails that I know are downloaded by running
> fetchmail -kv
> 
> I can send emails (exim)...  I can recieve emails (fetchmail -kv) ...  but I
> cant find the darn things :S

In your fetchmailrc file (well in mine) the second line of a fetch looks something
like this:
   user <remote-user> with password <password> is <local-user> here

So I would guess that your e-mails are going to <local-user> that is were mine
go.

Steve D




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