Where does fetchmail store e-mails?

Having removed procmail, am looking for where fetchmail is storing messages: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ tail -f /var/log/fetchmail.log fetchmail: IMAP A0004 SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED fetchmail: IMAP A0005 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP A0001 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP A0002 LOGIN "saunders.nicholas@gmail.com" * fetchmail: IMAP A0003 SELECT "INBOX" fetchmail: IMAP A0004 SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED fetchmail: IMAP A0005 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT Requested fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 OK 73 good day (Success) fetchmail: 6.4.27 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Sat 16 Dec 2023 10:31:35 AM: poll completed fetchmail: sleeping at Sat 16 Dec 2023 10:31:35 AM for 600 seconds nothing where expected: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ ll /var/spool/mail/nicholas -rw------- 1 nicholas mail 0 Nov 27 15:52 /var/spool/mail/nicholas nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ ll /var/mail/nicholas -rw------- 1 nicholas mail 0 Nov 27 15:52 /var/mail/nicholas nicholas@mordor:~$ As I'm using the Alpine e-mail client, there's some mail in my home directory under Mail, but none of the mbox files have recent activity to match the fetchmail activity. Fetchmail configured as: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ cat .fetchmailrc set postmaster "saunders" set daemon 60 set invisible set postmaster administrator set syslog set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log set daemon 600 poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP user 'saunders.nicholas@gmail.com' there with password 'xxx' is local_user here options ssl fetchlimit 1 keep # folder "fetching" nicholas@mordor:~$ where the fetchmail is limiting it's known where the mail's be stored. It's correct to poll "imap.gmail.com"? Using the "app" password which Alpine uses as a work-around to 2FA. No password problems, just confirming configuration. Can fetchmail be configured to explicitly use a particular directory or folder? Nothing in "~/.fetchids" either. Nothing listening on port 25. log shows: fetchmail: awakened by signal 10 fetchmail: restarting fetchmail (/home/nicholas/.fetchmailrc changed) fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.4.27 daemon fetchmail: 31 messages (31 seen) for saunders.nicholas@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com. fetchmail: 31 messages (31 seen) for saunders.nicholas@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com. fetchmail: restarting fetchmail (/home/nicholas/.fetchmailrc changed) fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.4.27 daemon fetchmail: 31 messages (31 seen) for saunders.nicholas@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com. fetchmail: 31 messages (31 seen) for saunders.nicholas@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com. fetchmail: awakened by signal 10 fetchmail: 32 messages (31 seen) for saunders.nicholas@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com. fetchmail: reading message saunders.nicholas@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com:32 of 32 (613 header octets) (log message incomplete) fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll: name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from saunders.nicholas@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) fetchmail: 32 messages (31 seen) for saunders.nicholas@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com. fetchmail: reading message saunders.nicholas@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com:32 of 32 (613 header octets) (log message incomplete) fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll: name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from saunders.nicholas@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Just looking to grab a single message and store it locally. I can change the fetchmail configuration, but hesitate to start downloading too many e-mails until I figure out where the ones it did save are being stored. nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ hostname -f mordor.saundersconsulting.tech nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ telnet mordor.saundersconsulting.tech 25 Trying 127.0.1.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused nicholas@mordor:~$