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Old 04-14-2003, 02:09 PM   #1
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Where is my mail?!


I reinstalled my root partition (slackware 8.1) and left my /home how it was. I conected to the net for the first time with the fresh install, and remembering i didnt check my mail for a ling time, i typed fetchmail at the terminal to get my mail (like i used to do before) After 5 minutes and many lines of "................." fetchmail finished getting my mail, so i run pine to read it. (i have a correctly configured .fetchmailrc and .pinerc from the previous install). The problem is, in inbox there are no messages!! Then i went to /var/spool/mail/nskl where fetchmail puts all the mail just to find out it doesn't exist!

My question is where the hell did fetchmail put my mail after fetching it since /var/spool/mail/nskl doesn't exist?
Or if you don't know, maybe you know to tell me some command with which i can see all the new files created in the last, say 2 days, so i can see where fetchmail put my mail, it's important!

Thanks everyone

-NSKL
 
Old 04-14-2003, 03:03 PM   #2
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Or if you don't know, maybe you know to tell me some command with which i can see all the new files created in the last, say 2 days, so i can see where fetchmail put my mail, it's important!
find / -mtime 2


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Old 04-15-2003, 12:30 AM   #3
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Thanks,
Found it!

-NSKL
 
Old 04-15-2003, 02:33 AM   #4
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Good man! :)

/me pats NSKL's shoulder


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