On Friday 18 January 2002 09:47 pm, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:12 , Adam Majer wrote: > > How did you configure it? I just used linuxconf and it works > > perfectly. You might want to set the options of forwarding to > > postmaster if unknown recipient instead of rejecting. and specify > > the postster. What does it say in the logs? [make it verbose if > > nothing shows up]... > > I installed it and just ran it from the command line. I see nothing > about fetchmail in any logs. I looked in /var/log/mail.log (empty) and > /var/log/syslog, and nothing else in /var/log, at least, is dated > anything close to when I ran fetchmail. > > > -Ken
if you use x, you should try fetchmailconf. run it as a user, not as root. it has a gui interface that is pretty easy to understand, and it also lets you test the configuration, and returns decent enough feedback. before you run it, you need to kill any running fetchmail process.
