fetchmail: Where is my mail???

[marsellus]

Hello,

I'm using fetchmail and was wondering why my inbox was empty for the last few days. I run fetchmail manually and got this:


1 Nachricht für xxxxxxxx bei mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (5581 Oktetts).
Nachricht xxxxxxxx@mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:1 von 1 wird gelesen (5581 Oktetts) ..... geflusht
(it's german )

I don't know what flushed means, but when I run "mail" i get this: No mail for martin (<- thats me )

Where has my mail gone? Please help.

[bk0]

Fetchmail forwards mail from the remote server to the local MTA running on your machine. When it says "flushed" it means that the MTA has accepted the message for delivery and everything went OK.

If you can't find the mail it probably means that your MTA is not configured correctly. Your messages may be bounced to the postmaster alias if the MTA can't deliver them.

[zbadone]

[quote="marsellus"]Hello,

I'm using fetchmail and was wondering why my inbox was empty for the last few days. I run fetchmail manually and got this:


1 Nachricht für xxxxxxxx bei mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (5581 Oktetts).
Nachricht xxxxxxxx@mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:1 von 1 wird gelesen (5581 Oktetts) ..... geflusht
(it's german :roll:)

I don't know what flushed means, but when I run "mail" i get this: No mail for martin (<- thats me :))

Where has my mail gone? Please help.

[code]
fetchmailrc is correct:

poll mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de proto POP3 user USERID password PASSWORD is martin fetchall

-rwx------ 1 martin users 0 23. Okt 20:40 /var/mail/martin
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I recently had to rebuild my system, originally had mail going into ~/Mail via postfix, procmail, fetchmail, spamassassin, evolution.

When I reinstalled my system files I forgot to modify /etc/procmailrc to deliever my email to the proper mail folder.

Default location for mail delivery was : /$HOME/.maildir not /$HOME/Mail/

I had a few hundred emails in a different dir location before I relized what had happened.