Re: About not receiving email
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 15:13:53 -0400
Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:08:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 19:20:58 +0100
> > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 at 13:49:54 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > >
> > > > I use fetchmail, not an MTA, and I don't think fetchmail has a
> > > > log.
> > >
> > > fetchmail(1) does talk about 'logfile'.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Start of my /etc/fetchmailrc:
> >
> > set no bouncemail
> > set postmaster 'joe'
> > set daemon 900
> > set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
> >
> > ..
> > ..
> > ..
> >
>
> However, is the user allowed to write to /var/log?
> put in your .procmailrc a location for the individual user
>
>
Yes, mine is system-wide, fetchmailrc is in /etc. Log file is
fetchmail:root 664. But that's where you tell fetchmail where its log
is. I believe it will log to syslog if there isn't an explicit entry,
but it's a long time since I last played with it.
--
Joe
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