Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Apr 22 22:33:01 UTC 2004


Am Fr, den 23.04.2004 schrieb Paul Dubinsky um 00:22:

> >Is this my error?
> 
> No. Deleting user files in /var/spool/mail does nothing but delete the mail 
> file. As soon as new mail arrives a new user file is created by  sendmail, 
> postfix, etc. I've never tried moving from system to system, tho.
> 
> Paul

It is no problem, but I think Tim's problem is that he does not
understand that each time he erases the complete user's
/var/spool/mail/$user file it will be recreated with a first "dummy"
message, the one he pasted in his first posting. Well, the message
itself speaks about that behaviour.

Alexander


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