[Wolves] vanishing e-mail - MTA

[Rob Annable]

On 7/8/05, Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 14:07, 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?
> 
> What email client are you using?
> 

That's the tricky bit. I'm not (knowingly) using a client at all.

Thanks for your suggestions anyway guys, I'll take a look at the
machine in question when I get home and let you know how I get on.

Rob
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