Fetchmail check option not returning number of emails

[Lovell Mcilwain]

Hello all,

I am trying to verify my fetchmailrc file is working properly but I seem
to not be able to get an error or anything when I run the fetchmail with
the check option to see if it can log into the mail server.

I am runing this on FC4 and my fetchmailrc file is as follows:

[***@FC4FW ~]$ more .fetchmailrc
defaults proto pop3 user ***@gmail.com mda
"/usr/bin/procmail -d lmcilwain"
poll pop.gmail.com port 995 pass ****** ssl is lmcilwain here
set daemon 120
set syslog
set postmaster ""
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set logfile "fetchmail.log"

As you can see, I have set the log file option but one is not generated.

Here is what happens when I run fetchmail --check
[***@FC4FW ~]$ fetchmail --check
[***@FC4FW ~]$

Can anyone give me some ideas of how to find out what is wrong?

[JT Moree]

Post by Lovell Mcilwain
Can anyone give me some ideas of how to find out what is wrong?

this is not the best place to find such help. You can try a fetchmail
mailing list or some other LUG lists. There may be a local list based
in your city. If not you can join some that I subscribe to:

www.sluug.org
phoenixlug.net


- --
JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.

[Tom Corr]

Post by JT Moree

Post by Lovell Mcilwain
Can anyone give me some ideas of how to find out what is wrong?

this is not the best place to find such help. You can try a fetchmail
mailing list or some other LUG lists. There may be a local list based
www.sluug.org
phoenixlug.net

I'm not disagreeing with JT, but you could try the following:

- verify syslog is running on your computer.

ps -ef | grep syslog

you should see something like:

root 2306 1 0 Oct28 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/syslog-ng

- try tailing your messages file (i have to be root to do this on my box).

tail -f /var/log/messages

Look for any output in there pertaining to "fetchmail",

Tom