Fetchmail, postfix, procmail issues

[lonescout]

Posting this question in total desparation, hopefully someone here has seen this issue before.


I'm running the newest Debian distro (no X) on a machine that I want all my email to go to. I intend to check this with Mutt, which I think I have configured correctly.

Finally got fetchmail working and actually pulling email off the server for me. I'm sure this may sound totally insane, but I don't know where it is going.


I'm attempting to have all my various email addresses mail dumped into my user directory /home/spooky/Mail. From there I can tweak the settings later to make filters ect. and check it all with mutt. At least this is the plan :)

Problem is, I can't seem to find the mail that is being downloaded anywhere and Mutt can't seem to find it. I've spent 3 hours searching for a similar issue (can't find any in English), and even went through this walkthrough to completely redo from scratch http://linux.ucla.edu/guides/mailguide.php3

below are copies of all the files that I believe are relavant. Guess just wondering if anyone knows what could be causing this or is there someway to trace down where my mail is going?


my .fetchmailrc (under /home/spooky

# Configuration for my fetchmail

set postmaster "spooky"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

poll mail.earthlink.net with proto pop3

user 'myfirstaddress@earthlink.net' there with password 'mypassword' is 'spooky' here options fetchall

user 'mysecondaddress@eartlink.net' there with password 'myotherpwd' is 'spooky' here options fetchall

## not all these are functional yet...just want to get it working before I try and get fancy


my .muttrc (also under /home/spooky)

# mutt config

set realname="Mike"
set folder="~/Mail"
set mbox=+mbox
mailboxes /var/spool/mail/spooky
mailboxes /home/spooky/Mail/lonescout
mailboxes /home/spooky/Mail/lonescout28
mailboxes /home/spooky/Mail/spookyone
mailboxes /home/spooky/Mail/mjohns
#sent mail should not be defined as a mailbox
set copy=yes #+ is a mailbox shortcut
set record=+sent #it expands to whatever you set in folder


hdr_order Date: From: Organization: User-Agent: X-Mailer To: Cc: Reply-To: Subject:

ignore *

unignore Date: From: Organization: User-Agent: X-Mailer To: Cc: Reply-To: Subject:

set date_format="!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z
set folder_format="%N %-8.8u %8s %d %N %f
set forward_format="Fwd: %s"
folder-hook . 'set index_format="%4C %Z %(%b %d) %-15.15F (%41) %s"'

set edit_headers #to see headers when composing
set pager_context=1 #show one line +
set pager_stop #prevents going to next message
set nomarkers #hold wraparound markers

unset mark_old #leaves unread messages unmarked
set auto_tag #not sure what this does really
set quit=ask-no #don't ask if I want to quit
unset confirmappend

set alias_file="~/.alias_mutt"
source ~/.alias_mutt


my .procmailrc (also under /home/spooky)
### configuration for my procmail

LINEBUF=4096
VERBOSE=on
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists

my .forward
### forward file to make Procmail send my mail here

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #spooky"

Can't think of anything else I changed or messed with... any help would be sincerly appreciated...

[lonescout]

Beginning to think this may not be a configuration issue at all.... all of the sudden last night, it just started working (sort of). I was able to get mail (not send). Think it may be something with that old junk box? Will try doing it on a different box and see what happens.