--begin quoted message from dman, > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 06:04:49AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > | > | On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 05:53 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: > | > | >Well, then this may or may not be usefull to you. Here are my > | >samples (with obvious security holes patched). > | > | Thanks, Bob. What I really need to know right now is where the mail > | went, since it showed it getting every single one of them. > > fetchmail does not deliver mail. It hands it off to some other > MTA/MDA for delivery. If you specify an MDA, then it pipes the > message to it. If not it tries to connect to port 25 on localhost and > give it to the MTA running on your local machine. Where it goes after > that depends on how you configured your MTA.
when I was having a similar problem, it was because of this. The lo interface hadn't been brought up, so fetchmail couldn't connect to hand off the mail. -- Noah Massey | fingerprint : 90AD 7AAB 0768 46AF 8C52 0695 03A2 C74D E1ED C2BF Pain and suffering is inevitable but misery is optional. Attached is a digital signature which can be used to authenticate this email. For details consult www.gnupg.org or www.pgpi.org
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