Fetchmail 6 question

[Rick Stevens]

gerrynix wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm attempting to resolve a fetch prob (someone else's box).
> 
> It appears the config files are OK. Manual polls work
> fine... Mail lands in the correct boxes. However, automatic
> polling doesn't seem to be working. The thing is running
> in daemon mode as below.
> 
> root 14355 1  0 14:25 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 60 -a -f /
> etc/fetchmailrc -L /var/log/fetchmail
> 
> The logfile confirms the 60 second poll and is error free.
> fetchmail: sleeping at Thu Sep 16 14:55:09 2004
> fetchmail: awakened at Thu Sep 16 14:56:09 2004
> fetchmail: sleeping at Thu Sep 16 14:56:12 2004
> fetchmail: awakened at Thu Sep 16 14:57:12 2004
> fetchmail: sleeping at Thu Sep 16 14:57:15 2004
> 
> and on and on, but no exchange... of course there is mail
> waiting :-)
> 
> What am I not seeing?

Without seeing the fetchmailrc, we can't tell.  As it is shown (and
unless there's "user so-and-so here" clauses in the fetchmailrc), the
daemon will try to fetch mail for the root user only.  If you want it to
fetch mail for all users, then you must have "user blah here" clauses to
set the user names it's supposed to fetch mail for.
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