Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:27:41 -0700 From: "Jim Barker" <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Scott Mitchell" <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <POPLBHENMJPPBAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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-- On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:14:59 Scott Mitchell wrote: >On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 07:33:40AM -0700, Jim Barker wrote: >> I have a small problem with not knowing where mail that sendmail is >> getting from fetchmail is going. I finally got fetchmail to retrieve >> mail from my POP3 host and redirecting it to port 25 on localhost. Now I >> don't know where it goes from there. It doesn't seem to be in the user's >> directory. A little background: >> >> this machine uses user-ppp dialup to ibm.net >> this machine also uses fetchmail to get POP3 mail >> localhost: lunchbox.ibm.net >> user's name on localhost: jimbark >> user's name on POP3: jimbark >> >> jimbark.mc file: >> >> VERSIONID(`lunchbox.ibm.net.mc version 1.0') >> OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl >> FEATURE(nouucp)dnl >> MAILER(local)dnl >> MAILER(smtp)dnl >> Cwlocalhost >> Cwlunchbox.ibm.net >> MASQUERADE_AS(`ibm.net')dnl >> FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl >> FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl >> FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl >> FEATURE(nodns)dnl >> define(SMART_HOST, `smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net') >> Dmlunchbox.ibm.net >> define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`lunchbox.ibm.net')dnl >> define(`confDELIVERY_MODE',`deferred')dnl >> >> this mc file is how it is reccomended on the FreeBSD FAQ concerning mail >> and dialup account's. >> >> Any suggestion's would be great, thanks. >> > >Well, unless you've done something weird, mail is locally delivered into >/var/mail/$USER. Did you try running 'mail'? I did not see any subdirectories under /var/mail, such as jimbark. I did try to run mail, but it said I had no mail. More appropiately "jimbark has no mail". > >Alternatively, sendmail might (for whatever reason) not know to deliver the >mail locally - try running 'mailq' and see if your messages are hung up in >the queue. As you suggested I tried mailq and then I saw everything that was downloaded. So, my next question(s) will be... Do I have to manually create the subdirectories under /var/mail, and if so what permission's, owner's, group's, etc. How do I get the mail from the queue to the respective user's. Thank's for everyone's help, I greatly appreciate it. > >HTH, > > Scott. > >-- >=========================================================================== >Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just ><scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" >QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. > -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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