I know this question has been asked & answered on the list archives
but I've tried what has been suggested & doesn't appear to fix my problem.
I'm attempting to download mail from a server to a local
mail directory & can't find the place where fetchmail is
putting it. I'm running on a solaris 2.6 box & the version of fetchmail
is 5.9.5+NLS
My .fetchmailrc looks like this (using bogus domains as an example here)
server mail-321.corp.foo.com protocol pop3 user tecuser password xxx keep
server mail-321.corp.foo.com localdomains foo.com protocol pop3 user
tecuser password xxx keep
server mail-321.corp.foo.com localdomains foo.com protocol pop3 user
tecuser password xxx is localuser here keep
One time it put a bunch of separate files in
/var/spool/mqueue
but my understanding is that fetchmail is supposed to dump all your mail
into a single file so that you can use programs like elm to read it...
How can I find out where fetchmail is dumping my mail?
There doesn't appear to be anything obvious in the /var/adm/messages
on the mailserver related to sendmail.
'fetchmail -a' and 'fetchmail -v -v' give me plenty of feedback that it's
seeing my mail on the server & that I'm logging in properly but gives
me no clue as to where it physically is putting the mail.
It tells me there's 93 msgs on the server but /var/adm/messages with about
20 of them gets "SYSERR(root): too many hops 22 (20 max)" & I did notice that
the files in /var/spool/mqueue seemed to match closely in filenames to
the messages I got in /var/adm/messages
Dec 10 23:54:30 piaffe sendmail[25269]: XAA25269: SYSERR(root): too
many hops 22 (20 max): from <user(_at_)xxx(_dot_)com> via localhost, to
<techuser(_at_)localhost
I didn't see anything in the archive on the fetchmail website about
this either.
Any suggestions wholeheartedly welcomed!
Thanks!
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Rachel
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~ Rachel Magnus Hartman ~
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