[plug] fetchmail options

[Onno Benschop]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 13:46, smclevie wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Q.  How does fetchmail know where to send the mail??  Does it go to a 
> $SPOOLFILE??  Does it go to the $MAIL location?
> Does the mail go to one location then get divided into mailboxes??
> 
> As you can see from my .fetchmailrc config file, there is no explicit 
> reference to any mailbox...

Yes there is, the user that you send the mail to has the mail box.

So, when you set bob there is jane here, you're telling where fetchmail
has to send the mail to.

Can I make an observation, that you might see as an insult, even if it
isn't intended as one?

You appear to have been going around in circles trying hard to fix all
your problems in one go. You're asking about exim, fetchmail and qpopper
in one email, which to me indicates that none are working and you have
at best a poor understanding of what is happening.

If you're still reading - and I hope not offended - then your best
approach in my opinion is:
     1. Make exim work. Configure it, using command-line mail, send an
        email from the same machine to yourself and use the standard
        mail command to see if there is any mail. Then try and send mail
        to another account on the same box, then try and send mail to
        the outside world. If that - and only if that - all works,
        proceed to the next step.
     2. Install mutt if that is your preferred mail program, though if
        that is the case, I'm not sure why you're looking at qpopper,
        but I digress. Get mutt to see the same mail, send and receive
        to yourself, then to a local account then to the world.
     3. Install fetchmail. Configure it, get it to check mail from a
        test account on a remote machine. You should see any mail sent
        to the test account arrive locally in the configured account.
     4. Install qpopper. Configure it, use Kmail, Eudora or some other
        client on a remote machine to POP the mail from the server local
        account.

Finally you should end up with a working machine.

Another observation is that the various applications do different but
related things. They all work in a chain and if one link is broken,
nothing works. Simplify the chain, get one step working, then move on.

Also, your emails constantly refer to mailpath variables etc. I've been
running Debian for several years and I have *never* *ever* had to touch
any of those variables directly.

So, hope this helps...

Onno Benschop 

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