Topic: where has my mail gone? (fetchmail)

[Michael Herger]

During my attempt to repair mail functionality I did some tests which have sent some 300 mails down the gully.

When running fetchmail I always got "procmail: unknown user postmaster" errors. I therefore replaced "set postmaster "postmaster@jo-sac.ch" by "set postmaster "admin@jo-sac.ch". The latter is normally forwarded to mh@jo-sac.ch. But neither mh nor admin did receive the mails in their accounts. Where have they gone?

As I understood the installation fetchmail in multidrop mode forwards received mail to the local smtp server. But, as I finally found out, mailfront was corrupted. The service seemed to correctly start, but actually smtpfront-qmail et al. were missing from my /usr/bin! But what task was listening on port 25 during that time? Where did fetchmail send the data when there was no mailfront running?

Any information is appreciated!

Michael

[Schotty]

Please show us your .fetchmailrc datei.......in root directory

[Michael]

There's none, neiter in the fs's root /, nor in the root's home /root. But /etc/fetchmail says:

# multi-drop configuration; fetchmail retrieves all mail from a remote POP mailbox:

/usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog --silent --auth password --fetchmailrc - <
set postmaster "postmaster@mydomain.ch"
set bouncemail
set properties ""

poll mail.mydomain.ch
    protocol POP3
    no dns
    localdomains mydomain.ch
       username "nada" password "gaga" to * here
           smtphost localhost
           fetchall
           forcecr

So it's meant to feed all mails to the local smtp server.

Michael