Am Di, den 30.08.2005 schrieb Doug Lewis um 20:08: > I'm running FC4 with Fetchmail, Sendmail , Dovecot and Thunderbird. > Fetchmail is running and picking up mail from my ISP and places it in > /var/mail. However Thunderbird is looking in /home/"USER"/mail/inbox. It > works if I copy /var/... to /home/... but shouldn't this be done > automagically. I haven't changed anything and logwatch didn't report any > updates that may have broke something. I've been googling and tried > Postfix as well. Any ideas on what happened and how to fix it. > doug The typical and probably best setup: fetchmail fetches mail and hands it over to the local MTA which then (here with help of procmail) stores it in the INBOX (here /var/spool/mail/<user>). The mail access server (here dovecot) which you query from your mail client (thunderbird) should be configured to handle all places where mail is stored. Please see http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MailLocation for detailed instructions. A common setup is default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u How do you actually instruct fetchmail to operate? Doesn't it fetch the mails and presents them your local MTA Sendmail? Or if Thunderbird is configured "strange", then correct it's setup and let it contact your local dovecot IMAP/POP3 server. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 20:20:40 up 8 days, 17:04, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.08
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