I find your message to be a bit confusing but I think you'll want to do the following:
- Fetchmail is probably configured to hand over the incoming mail to
Exim.
- Exim is default configured to deliver to mbox format so you'll need
to reconfigure it by replacing:
file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
with:
directory = /home/${local_part}/mail
maildir_format
in /etc/exim/exim.conf, under "local_delivery:".
And when wondering what the heck a process is doing, you might want to
try exploring /var/log for more info. :-)
Auke
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 05:09, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
>
> I have an old 486/66 with debian, I though I might use it to get my emails
> from several accounts.
>
> I have install fetchmail, configured exim and install courier imap.
>
> After creating a Maildir folder (makemaildir I think) I can connect via an
> imap client and see the folders ok.
>
> When I ran fetchmail, it did collect my email, but put it in single file in
> /var/mail/user.
> This was of course correct because I had not changed the config.
>
> After a bit of googling, I made some changes to point to ${home}/Maildir and
> also maildir_format = true.
>
> Now it still connects to the servers and downloads the email, but I cannot
> fathom where they go.
>
> They do not appear in the Maildir folders, nor the /var/mail folder.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Matt
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