Subject: Re: fetchmail and SMTP
To: Jeffrey Ohlmann <jeffbsd@yahoo.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/13/2000 16:12:49
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:

> sendmail is now running (thanks) and fetchmail seems happier.  However,
> received mail does seem to be getting into my ~/mail folder.  The
> output from fetchmail -v now looks like this:

The mail is going to go to /var/mail/jaohlma (after a brief stop at
/var/spool/mqueue/), which is where the mailreaders will look for it.
 
> <handshaking deleted>
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<jaohlma@localhost>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <jaohlma@localhost>... Recipient ok
> fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
> fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> #*fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 NAA01898 Message accepted for delivery
>  flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK jaohlma InterMail POP3 server signing off.
> fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
> fetchmail: SMTP< 221 netbsd.jeffoh.org closing connection
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
> 
> 
> The remarks about "flushed" and "DELE 1" make me think something's
> still not right.  Do I have to do any additional configuration to
> ensure local delivery of received mail?

Looks OK. "flushed" and "DELE 1" mean you have fetchmail set to delete
mail on the server after it's read.