On Wednesday 25 January 2006 02:29, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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).
You could read them using "Pine", without configuring anything - probably.
Read the thread and have a question. Could somebody put together what the different mail-delivery system do and don't. E.g. if I use Kmail, does this use other agents too? When I use fetchmail which is offered at instalation time in 9.3 to get the mail, does that conflict with Kmail? Are other agents like sendmail and procmail necessary and where do they play a role? What does Pine do that others don't? I find the whole complex of mail delivery complex. Which mail-delivery agent is best for dialup (e.g. every hour) and what would be best for ADSL or cable? Could somebody give some pointers?