fetchmail is for automating the task of pulling mail down to local Unix accounts, from a remote POP3 server. Sendmail is for sending and receiving mail via smtp protocol. For example, I have a dial up ISP account to the internet. I use fetchmail to pop3 my email from my ISP's mail server into my local Unix accounts mail file/folder. I also have sendmail configured to forward my locally composed email to my ISP's mail server. I have configured a smart host and turned on the expensive flag in my sendmail.cf, so that when my machine is not dialed up to the internet, it queues the mail in /var/spool/mqueue.
If your mail is in /var/spool/mqueue, and you are sure it is mail destined for your local account (not composed from your local account destined for a remote email address), then that suggests that you are able to receive mail at your local machine via smtp. If this is the case, then you don't need fetchmail at all, you just need to tweak sendmail configuration files to properly handle incoming mail. Typing mailq from a command prompt will tell you a little bit about the mail, if there is any, in /var/spool/mqueue.
Probably not a lot of help, but I wasn't able to fully determine your setup from your message.
-----Original Message-----
From: bagus@hawedo.com [mailto:bagus@hawedo.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:06 AM
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: [SLE] Fetchmail problem
Hi all,
I'am using SuSe linux 7.1 sendmail and fetchmail. I have a problem with
fetchmail which I can not solve.
I have a .fetchmailrc file in my root dir which say
poll my.mail.com user .... pass .... is wil
wil is a local user on my Linux server. I also have put
in my aliases wil: wil
All the incoming mail is delivered to /var/spool/mqueue
but it should deliver the incoming mail to /var/spool/mail
in the mailbox of user wil. In my opinion /var/spool/mqueue
is only for outgoing mail. I try to solve the problem but
I can not trace where the problem is.
I hope somebody can point me the problem, or give me some suggestions,
if you need more details, please let me know
Rgds
Wil
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