Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail doesn´t fetching

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Alex Moreno wrote:

> smtp works ok. I´m using qmail some time ago and now, after installing mutt
> i can send mails without problems... The problem appears trying to read the
> incoming mails by pop3... fetchmail is not writing my mails on ~/Mail or any
> other known directory...

Please do not top-post.  http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
applies to mailing lists, too.

Fetchmail DOES NOT (as of 6.3.X and older versions) deliver to mailboxes
or maildirs.  Fetchmail hands mail off to your SMTP server (qmail in
your case), which is responsible for delivery.

Check your qmail configuration (its mail log, qmail-showctl
output, qmail-qread and similar) to find out where your mail is stuck or
going to. Double-check if qmail knows what your computer is called
(/var/qmail/control/me, .../locals).


Side note: qmail turned out over the years to be a defective and
unmaintained software package, and rather complicated to set up. My
/personal/ favorite alternatives at this time are Postfix + Dovecot.
Others may be happy with Courier-IMAP, popa3d, Exim, Courier as a whole,
or other systems. (<http://www.postfix.org/>, <http://dovecot.org/>)

Details on qmail flaws are given in
<http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html>.

-- 
Matthias Andree