I am very new to this so please be gentle, clear and concise and thank you in advance for any response.
When using the following: $ telnet myHostName pop3 I am always getting: "... has 0 visible messages (0 hidden) in 0 octets" even when I stick new test messages into my mailbox. My situation may seem rather obtuse to any of you. I am using a dial-up ISP in which I retrieve my mail from. On my system Fetchmail gets them, postfix processes them and hands them off to procmail which finally delivers to my mailboxes. My ISP mailing address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have procmail set up to recognize different users on my system addressed as: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail spool is supposed to be /var/spool/mail/hoffy(this being me, of course) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail spool is supposed to be /var/spool/mail/user1 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail spool is supposed to be /var/spool/mail/user2 etc. When I installed Qpopper a "/var/spool/pop" directory was created. It is in that directory where it creates this temp file .user.pop during a session. Even if I put a file called "hoffy" in that directory with new messages in it I still get the same result. FYI, I am using Debian and installed Qpopper with its package management system, like RPMs, only better :) so I only have executables installed, therefore I did not configure the program, it was all done for me. Can anybody help me here? Why am I never seeing any new messages? Can I download a message from my ISP's POP server then turn around and serve the same message to a user on my local network with my own POP server?
