[Wylug-help] Fetchmail setup

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 25 12:03:45 UTC 2010


On Thursday 25 Nov 2010 11:50:31 Simon Brown wrote:
> At Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:29:47 +0000,
> 
> Simon Brown wrote:
> > So to avoid this annoyance and as I don't really use postfix anymore I
> > decided to look at eliminating it. I'm now using procmail as the
> > fetchmail mda and so far it seems to be working.
> 
> Cancel that, mail is still getting dropped into /var/spool/ This is
> rubbish.
> 
The most likely explanation of that is a faulty recipe in procmail.  It has a 
tendency to create an mbox file there if it can't deliver.

Anne
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