Finding newly received messages

[annewilson]

I'm attempting to set up a new imap server, using FC4 and dovecot. I have succeeded in getting fetchmail to download messages when called from a CLI, but cannot see the messages in my MUA, so presumably either dovecot or kmail is looking at the wrong place.

Where does fetchmail store the messages by default?

[till]

That depend on the way how you use fetchmail. Please pust your fetchmail config (xxxx out username and password )

[annewilson]

Originally Posted by till

That depend on the way how you use fetchmail. Please pust your fetchmail config (xxxx out username and password )

poll pop3.mailbox.co.uk with proto pop3
user "xxxx"
pass "xxxx"
is anne@my.lan fetchall

[till]

If you use system user accounts, you can try to use "is anne fetchall" if the userna,me is anne.

Please have a look at your mal logfile (in /var/log directory) if you get any errors.

If i remember correctly, dovecot uses Maildir format. Have you configured postfix to deliver messages to the users maildir?

[annewilson]

Thanks for replying, Till. With help from you and many others I found that the format of fetchmail does need to be different from my old one - perhaps a difference in version, as the old server would be quite out of date. Anyway, fetchmail is now working. Thanks again.