On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:14:45 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm?? > > the only time I have done that was for imap.. > > As far as pop3 goes, the normal imap rpm contains a perfectly > good pop3 server that is widely used, well documented and > easier to get working. (because you don't have to do anything > other then enable it in /etc/xinetd.d ) Okay, got that. Thanks, someone recommended Courier somewhere, I can't remember...losing track...aaaaarrrrrrhhhh! Installed the imap package, and I notice in /etc/xintetd.d I already have imap, imaps, ipop2, and ipop3. Is it ipop3 I want? I looked in drakconf under services, but it was not showing as "started", even after a reboot. > As for fetchmail,,, do this for a test.. > > copy the .fetchmailrc to the root home directory and as root > type: > fetchmail > > (you might want to turn off or remove fetchmail-daemon first.) > > see if that gets your mail delivered properly.. > > if it doesn't, install and run fetchmailconf > (fetchmailconf-6.1.0-1.1mdk on my mdk9 system) got that. > Then run "fetchmailconf" in a root terminal.... > > it will then all be pretty obvious what all the settings do its > a nice pretty gui. > > once you have all that sorted, reinstall fetchmail-daemon and > move your .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc and give that a shot. > > see how that does it for you.. Thanks for the attention! One question, I asked Todd below, could Postfix be interfering? Why would the mail end up in /var/spool/mail/postfix? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++++++++++++++++++++++ A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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