Dave Sill <MaxFreedom@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<wx01xxah06d.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov>...
> nospam-googlegroups@erilaz.com (Brett Williams) writes:
>
> > - 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).

I'll do so in future, if I need to post for assistance with anything.

> 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.

No probs.

> > 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?

I checked all of these things last night with a friend who knows way
more Linux than I do and we (read he) managed to fix the problem for
me. I don't fully understand what wasn't working properly, but he's
going to sit down with me on the weekend and go through it.

> > 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.

Respectfully, I didn't *know* how it was failing - however I do
understand your point and in future will endeavour to be more concise
with relevant logs and the like. Being a newbie when it comes to
Linux it's really difficult for me to try to explain things since I
don't fully understand what's going on - but point taken.

In any regard, the problem is fixed now; I hope to understand how in
the coming days. A bit of a learning experience for me.

Thankyou for your response, though, Dave - my apologies for lack of
clarity and information you could use.

Brett.