[Techtalk] Mysterious fetchmail problem -- SOLVED

[Brenda Bell]

Quoting Brenda Bell <k15a-list-linuxchix at theotherbell.com>:

> ps -waux | grep fetch says the fetchmail daemon isn't running.  I don't
> have anything in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.* that starts the fetchmail
> daemon.
>  And fetchmail doesn't show up in /var/spool/cron/*.  However, something
> is
> definitely retrieving email from my POP3 account and I know it's
> definitely
> not getmail 'cause I haven't done anything to make getmail run
> automatically... but when I send email to my POP3 account, it magically
> shows up in my domain account a few seconds later.

I'm such an idiot.  I just realized I reconfigured things on the ISP end
several months ago when my ISP started offering automatic forwarding
(embarrassed).

-- 
Brenda
http://opensource.theotherbell.com