On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:38:02 Ashley wrote:
Now when I run fetchmail -d0, it downloads the email from the pop server, but it does not arrive in /home/ash/mail as expected. On looking inside /var/spool/exim I get lots of:
.com [205.158.62.41]: 550 5.1.1 server2@email.com... User unknown
messages. This is for incoming email.
I would take a guess here that it is fetchmail that is incorrectly configured - it hands messages to exim (or other MTA) for delivery and exim expects mail to be addresses to one of the users defined in the /etc/passwd file so if fetchmail gets it wrong then exim will just bounce the mail.
Your fetchmail config file should have something like:
poll server with proto POP3 user 'user.name@isp' there with password secret is 'luser' here
where server and user.name@isp are replaces with details of your mail account with your ISP and luser is your login name in Linux.
Steve.