nospam-googlegroups@erilaz.com (Brett Williams) writes:

> My email is delivered to the email account provided by my webhost for
> my domain. I set up fetchmail to POP new mail from my webhost account
> in the hopes it would end up in my IMAP inbox;

You might have better luck with Charles Cazabon's getmail.

> daemonsed fetchmail to
> run every 5 minutes. According to /var/log/messages and
> /var/log/maillog the following works:
>
> - Test mail sent from MS Outlook (going through my qmail smtp on my
> Linux box) works (verified by logging into remote webmail interface
> and email arrives at my webhost email account).
>
> - Fetchmail POPs in to webhost email account and sees 1 new message;
> it then tries to contact my smtp to deliver the message (? unsure if
> actually -is- what's happening, but it's how I'm reading the
> logfiles).

If you can't read the log files, post them here (or on a web server,
and post the URL).

BTW, my news reader displays "-is-" with the "is" overstruck with
dashes. The standard Usenet (and e-mail) convention for emphasis is to
use asterisks, not dashes.

> - qmail delivers the remote message to a local user (user@localhost)
> "supposedly" successfully.

Logs?

> However, that email doesn't end up in my IMAP. It doesn't seem to end
> up -anywhere- that I can find. I don't know how to make it end up in
> my IMAP Maildir. I read some stuff on .qmail and as I understood it
> (likely not correctly) all I needed to do was create .qmail in my
> local user's $HOME with the line:
>
> ./Maildir/
>
> and it would deliver.

Does Maildir exist? Is it a maildir? Does mail sent directly to this
user appear in their IMAP mailbox?

> But, this isn't working either.

It's more helpful to explain *how* it fails than to simply assert that
it doesn't work. If it made no difference, say so. If anything
changed, tell us.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.