On Tue 12 Nov 2002 13:40:33 +0100 "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What he was trying to put across is that in the DEFAULT Debian > >install of Exim any mail passed to it by fetchmail shuld > >automatically be delivered to /var/mail/{username}. If the user has a > >~/.procmailrc then it would automatically be passed through procmail > >and delivered wherever the .procmailrc told it to go. > > > >Something is broken in your Exim installation. At this point I would > >suggest deleting everythin in /etc/exim and running > >'dpkg-reconfigure exim' or 'eximconfig' to get back to the default > >behaviour. > > > >Also, please post your fetchmailrc (sanitize the usernames/passwords > >please) here to this thread so we can see if anything appears out of > >whack. > > > >G > > I deleted the files in /etc/exim, ran eximconfig. Then i restarted > both exim and fetchmail but the mail ends up in /var/spool/exim/input > again. This is my /etc/fetchmailrc file: > > ============================== > set postmaster "user1" > set bouncemail > set no spambounce > set daemon 300 > > poll pop.isp.com with proto POP3 > user 'username1' there with password '123456' is 'user1' here > > poll pop3.isp2.com with proto POP3 > user 'username2' there with password '123456' is 'user1' here > > poll pop.isp.com with proto POP3 > user 'username3' there with password '123456' is 'user2' here > > keep > ============================== Hmmm -- check that the user:group for /var/mail is root:mail or mail:mail. Perhaps exim can't write to the spool directory and this is causing the failure. Mine look like this: ls -lA /var ... drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2002-10-28 03:33 mail ... ls -lA /var/spool ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2002-07-05 03:18 mail ->../mail ... G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]