-----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es] offered:
The Tuesday 2006-01-24 at 11:51 -0500, mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
- fetchmail grabs mail from my ISP's POP3 server and hands it off to...
The local MTA, probably postfix.
Yesterday, I ran one pass of fetchmail (with --keep) just to see what would happen. What happened is that 1545 messages came in, over a period of several minutes and went.... somewhere...
I figure that they are on my hard disk somewhere in either MBOX format or maildir format (or maybe even mailboxes.db, but I doubt it) and:
My guess is that they will be at /var/spool/mail/{USERNAME}, unless you configured for something else (for instance, using procmail or even kmail).
Well, not deliberately/explicitly, but we know how YaST likes to do stuff without explaining all that it's doing -- I'm the guy who suggested that one of the best user-education steps that Novell/SuSE could take would be to make YaST simply explain what changes it was planning to make (based on your input of the moment) and then explain what changes it finally did make. ("The following lines were added to the heeblygreebly.conf file... and two new directories were created under /opt, as follows....") Not only would many people learn more about the under-the-hood aspects of Linux, we'd probably also make fewer bad config choices just because we'd see what was about to happen/happening. As well, it would help the developers - few things help to clarify what you are doing (and what you should be doing) as much as trying to explain what you are doing so that your mother could understand it.
You could read them using "Pine", without configuring anything - probably.
That's a thought. If pine finds them without help, then they're in a standard place.
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¡HA! Don't make me laugh!
Forget it. Once sent, the email belongs to the recipient, who is named in the "To" field. If it goes to somebody else, your problem: check more carefully next time. Disclaimers do not apply.
If the information is privileged, etc, etc, encrypt it, and do not ever send it to a mail list.
You know as well as I do that only buffoons deliberately attach stupid disclaimers like that to their e-mail. Somebody in our company fits that description and apparently has the ear of the IT people.... or (gawd forbid) _is_ the IT people... and imagines that the disclaimer makes them look important or something. (This is me, testing how closely they monitor my mail... :-) I've tried to explain the realities of life, but to no avail... so it keeps getting automatically attached to all outgoing mail. Makes me cringe every time I see it. Makes me cringe and wanna hurl when I see it attached to my own mail. But hey, they've got bigger paychecks than I do, so they must be right, right? :-) Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.