fetchmail requires a .fetchmailrc file, which is usually in the /usr/share/doc/fetchmail directory somewhare. .fechmailrc should be in your home directory. min is in /home/barryp/.fetchmailrc Barry On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > Scott, I've got no idea what your fetchmail problem is all > about. Maybe try reinstalling fetchmail, and see if that makes a > difference. > > As for moving from mbox files in /var/spool to Maildirs in the user's > home directories, the only mtas that I know of which support Maildirs > are qmail and the courier mail server. > > Having said this though, I believe that newer versions of procmail > support Maildirs. So, you should be able to pipe your mail from your > mta, through spam assassin, and then through procmail, which would put > the mail in the user's Maildir. > > In order to create the Maildirs, you will need the maildirmake > program. I don't know where you could get that separately, mine came > with qmail. > > Maildirs are also crash proof, whereas the standard mbox files are > not. > > Hth somewhat. > > Greg > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:28:56AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I have a question regarding fetchmail. I have fetchmail working just > > fine on box A. > > I setup fetchmail on box B and moved the exist fetchmailrc file over > > from box A to B with the hopes of doing a drop-in replacement. I keep > > getting an error from fetchmail that says fetchmail: no mailservers have > > been specified. This of course is rediculous as the configuration file > > is exactly the same one I was using on box A. The permisitions are > > correct, I know all dns names can be resolved from that box and well I'm > > flat out of ideas. I also did scrub through the logs, but can't find > > anything and fetchmail only provides that error message. > > Oh also I was considering going from the usual spool/mail setup and > > having each user a mail directory in home. Is there a simple enough way > > to do this if I'm using Spam Assassin, Procmail, and either Exim or > > Postfix? I guess the question is there any reason other than keeping > > mail in the user's home directory thus freeing space for the /var > > directory and perhaps for security reasons, would I gain anything by > > continuing to use the spool/mail setup over the maildirs being in the > > /home/user. > > Ok I do need some cofee I don't think that made sense. grin > > > > tia > > Scott > > > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
