On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:49:50PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > Hello, Hi! > > after happily setting up exim/fetchmail under slink (may be you remember > the problems I had last week) I updated to potato today. > > Unfortunately I do now not get my mail on the local machine. > After calling fetchmail I get several messages: > > reading message x of y (n header octets) (m body octets) . flushed > > The messages are deleted from the mail host but my mailbox remains untouched > :-(. > > I suspect that the reason is the moved spool file. > fetchmail doesn't use the spool file, it talks directly to whatever SMTP server you've got running.
> How to solve this problem? Check to make sure that localhost is in the local_domains section of exim.conf, and that exim recognizes it as a valid hostname. fetchmail is sending mails to <your username>@localhost, and exim doesn't know what to do. BTW, the debian-user list is more appropriate for these types of questions, so I've set the Reply To to that. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
