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Postfix and fetchmail woes (was: Mutt strating up)



* Erik Jakobsen <eja@xxxxxxxxxxx> [13-04-2005 16:34]:

> >It could be that Postfix has a $mailbox_command configured, something
> >like:
> >
> >  mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
> >
> >This means Postfix passes the message to procmail, which takes care of
> >the actual delivery in a mailbox.
> >  
> #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
> #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION
> mailbox_command =
> This is what stands in my /etc/postfix/main.cf file.

Ok, so procmail is not called by Postfix.  Then postfix should do
local delivery (again, I assume the most obvious)..

> I have not been lucky to have had mails when I ran fetchmail -v, so I
> have no idea where mails are stored.

Then *start* sending yourself some mail, to the addresses which you
try to fetch with fetchmail!!

> This is what I mean by working:
> 
> erikja@lajka3:~> fetchmail -v

I don't use fetchmail.  It seems that you have a few accounts, one of
which indeed has no mail, and one of which you have supplied a wrong
username password combo:

[...]

> fetchmail: No mail for xxx at urbakken.dk

[...]

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "yyyyyyyyyyy" *
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 NO Account is not allowed to use IMAP
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 *
> fetchmail: Authorization failure on yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 BAD Unrecognized command, please login
> fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE IMAP4 server terminating connection
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK LOGOUT completed
> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying pop3.mail.dk (protocol IMAP) at Wed 13 Apr
> 2005 04:26:                                            33 PM CEST: poll
> completed
> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying pop3.mail.dk (protocol auto) at Wed 13 Apr
> 2005 04:26:                                            33 PM CEST: poll
> completed
> fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 3

Long story short:  you don't experience a mutt problem, you're just
not ready setting up your MTA (postfix) and fetchmail yet.  I also
noticed / read that you use a Mozilla mail client for reading and
sending mail.  This may be the cause that the spool directories are
empty, and that their contents are copied to somewhere in your home
directory.  I bet my ass that this is all documented somewhere out
there, on the web..

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