[Wolves] vanishing e-mail - MTA

[David Goodwin]

Rob Annable wrote:
> My e-mail is disappearing. After about 12 hours of not receiving a
> single mail I started to get suspicious. Today I've tested it by
> sending a mail from my gmail account to my main account. It shows up
> when I visit the webmail portal in my browser, then later it
> disappears when I revisit.
> 
> Something, somewhere is pulling down my mail.
> 
> Is it possible that the mail transfer agent settings in YaST in SuSE
> is doing it? I have a machine switched on at home that I've just set
> up with SuSE/KDE. All I've done so far is install it and fiddled with
> a few network settings. I filled in a few boxes in the Mail Transfer
> Agent without being entirely sure what I was doing. My understanding
> was that it simply held the info and something like fetchmail has to
> be invoked to actually query the account - is this correct? Or is it
> periodically checking my inbox and fetching my mail?
> 
> If that's the case, where on earth is it putting it?
> 
> Rob

ps auxww | grep fetchmail

Any matches?

(There's getmail as well, as an alternative, and SLOX had fetchd (?) i 
think)

David.

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