mail on Fedora Core 3

[Janina Sajka]

OK, you changed to exim. I don't know much about that. However, you
should probably use chkconfig to enable it a boot.

If you don't currently have a running mta, your fetchmail may be unable
to deliver. I'm sorry, my recollection is a tad hazy on that.

Try:

fetchmail -d0 [your user, server]

PS: proto should be a separate line in the .fetchmailrc.


Raul A. Gallegos writes:
> Hi gang.  I feel like an Id10t on this because it should be easy to figure 
> out.
> 
> I installed FC3 and am in the process of configuring it.  I just discovered 
> the system-switch-mail command and switched from sendmail to exim which is 
> my preferred mta.  My questions are as follows.
> 
> 1.  If any of my questions can be answered via online docs I'm having 
> trouble finding them or find obscure answers.
> 
> 2.  I am comfortable in editing exim.conf by hand but does FC3 provide any 
> custom programs to be used as front ends to edit the config file?
> 
> 3.  I can't get fetchmail to poll my mail.  If I do something like: 
> fetchmail -c -v -u username -p pop3 mail.asmodean.net I do get verbose 
> output saying I have messages.  ` if I try to run fetchmail replacing the 
> -c parameter with -a there is no mail which gets fetched.  I've also tried 
> using my .fetchmailrc which I used to use on Debian and it does not work 
> either.  That file's syntax is something like:
> 
> set daemon 180
> poll mail.asmodean.net with proto pop3
> user raul at asmodean.net
> pass my_pass
> smtp saidin.asmodean.net
> fetchall
> nokeep
> 
> 
> It still will not poll any mail.
> 
> The server is behind an ActionTec gateway on Qwest.net dsl service.  The ip 
> for the server is a static one and I can surf the net just fine.  I'm using 
> mutt as the mua and exim as the mta.  However from my understanding neither 
> of this should matter when using fetchmail.  My mail file is correctly 
> defined as /var/spool/mail/raul with 770 permissions owner raul group mail.
> 
> If I telnet mail.asmodean.net 110
> I can type pop commands by hand and see my mail.
> 
> If there is anything else I can provide please let me know.
> 
> 
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