From: Alan Sobey (ags-lists at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Mon 01 May 2000 - 10:54:51 IST
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:14:26PM +0100, Mark Page wrote:
> I have written on this subject before and I still don't seem to have solved the
> problem.
>
> Fetchmail will download and flush the server of mail, but I can never locate
> thereafter. I am currently using Mandrake. Previously RedHat always created a
> /var/spool/mail/user file but under Mandrake this doesn't exist, and needs to
> be manually created. Nevertheless fetchmail does not drop the mail there!!
>
> I believe Postfix is unique to Mandrake and this is up and running on my
> machine - does this have something to do with it.
>
> All I want to do is be able to use the command line to download my mail and
> read it from /var/spool/mail using either pine or mutt. Please, any assistance
> much appreciated.
Postfix as it ships with mandrake 7.0 is broken. Last time I looked
there was nothing on the website aobut it. Just checked again, still
nothing. Try creating a symlink between /etc/aliases.db and
/etc/postfix/aliases.db It's supposed to fix it, but I've a feeling
that it only works for local mail so YMMV. (Also, that fix is from
memory so I could be wrong :) but I don't think so).
hth,
Alan
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