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Sorry if this is obvious, didn't see it in the man page. How do I get
fetchmail to deliver to somewhere other than /var/spool/mail/root ? I
tried 'export MAIL=/some/mailbox' but it didn't help.

Thanks for any info.

Are you, by any chance, reffering to procmail?
You can do this in ~/.procmailrc if you add this line:

DEFAULT=/some/mailbox

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Apparently fetchmail uses procmail because that worked. Thank you.

* Nietzsche, 2006-11-14 17:50 UTC:

Normally, if not overridden by using the -m respectively --mda switch to
deliver to an MDA like procmail, fetchmail delivers to your local SMTP
port 25, so it depends on how your MTA is configured or your .forward
settings.

Eike

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