[COLUG] fetchmail configuration

[Rob Funk]

David McGlone wrote:
> I have been trying for 3 days to set up a mail server using fetchmail
> and postfix.

I suppose I should pay attention then....

> My problem is, so far I seem to have fetchmail working, it doesn't give
> me any errors and states that it downloaded the mail, but I have no
> idea where the mail is going where it is downloaded to (if for a fact
> it is downloaded)

Check your mail logs, e.g. /var/log/mail.log or similar.

Try test-running fetchmail with a -v or three, possibly 
with --nosyslog --nodetach, so you can see everything it's doing.
And make sure you understand everything in your fetchmailrc, and where 
fetchmail is configured to send your mail.  And understand your postfix 
main.cf too.

Also make sure you're running the latest fetchmail (currently 6.3.8).

> I am trying to set up my desktop computer to act as a server just for
> my little LAN here at the house. I have set up fetchmail to fetch my
> mail from my ISP AT&T (POP3) and then have it delivered to each user,

Uh oh, multidrop..... that gets tricky and depends on proper ISP support.


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