i am using red hat 9 linux and configured one email account to fetch mail from outside server.here i am giving the fetchmail configuration script.

poll mail.rrcfinancials.com
proto pop3
user "satish.kadam-rrcfinancials"
pass "test123"
is satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com
keep
fetchall

also here i am giving the output of configuration scipt
fetchmail -v -f '/fetchmail'

fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mail.rrcfinancials.com (protocol POP3) at Sat 19 Jul 2008 03:48:37 PM IST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK dovecot ready.
fetchmail: POP3> USER satish.kadam-rrcfinancials
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logged in.
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 5 10250
5 messages for satish.kadam-rrcfinancials at mail.rrcfinancials.com (10250 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 5 messages:
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2037
fetchmail: POP3< 2 2048
fetchmail: POP3< 3 2055
fetchmail: POP3< 4 2050
fetchmail: POP3< 5 2060
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2037 octets
reading message 1 of 5 (2037 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 mail.rrcfinancials.com ESMTP
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-mail.rrcfinancials.com
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-STARTTLS
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-AUTH=LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<satish.kadam@rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 go ahead
#fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok 1216462724 qp 6396
not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2048 octets
reading message 2 of 5 (2048 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<satish.kadam@rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 go ahead
#fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok 1216462725 qp 6403
not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 3
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2055 octets
reading message 3 of 5 (2055 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<satish.kadam@rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 go ahead
#fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok 1216462725 qp 6408
not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 4
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2050 octets
reading message 4 of 5 (2050 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<satish.kadam@rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 go ahead
#fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok 1216462725 qp 6413
not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 5
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2060 octets
reading message 5 of 5 (2060 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<satish.kadam@rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 go ahead
#fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok 1216462726 qp 6420
not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out.
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 mail.rrcfinancials.com
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0

when i go to receive the configured local mail user(satish.kadam@mail.rrchokhani.com)i get nothing.

where is my all mails gone?


Regards


Satish

As far as I know it's the other way around: "user remoteusername is localusername" and the local username should be of format "localusername" not "localusername@somedo.main", though I haven't tried to see if the MDA gets confused or just tries to bounce messages back or if recent Fetchmail versions indeed allow it.


Dead. Deprecated. Unsupported. No longer maintained. Please. Don't.

poll mail.rrcfinancials.com
proto pop3
user "satish.kadam-rrcfinancials"
pass "test123"
is satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com
keep
fetchall

satish.kadam-rrcfinancials is remote email id

satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com is local email id which i configure in qmail.

when i run the above fetchmail script using fetchmail -v -f '//.fetchmailrc' this command it shows me the mail is downloaded and RCPT TO:<satish.kadam@mail.rrcfinancials.com> but when i go in outlook express and tried with the the above username and password it authenticates properly but showing no messages.

Fersure I didn't knew you could specify a local user ID notation like that with Fetchmail, any MDA or MTA like that...


By using a (remote) client you're unnecessarily complicating things. If you use Fetchmail and the MDA (usually Procmail) in verbose mode logs should show retrieval and delivery and using any locally available CLI MUA like (al)pine, mutt, mail or even 'less' for checking delivery would be enough IMHO.