Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:14:59 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Jim Barker <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <19980923181459.L12188@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <PIFOPDCCDEEKBAAA@my-dejanews.com>; from Jim Barker on Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 07:33:40AM -0700 References: <PIFOPDCCDEEKBAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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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'? 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. 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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