Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d

[Tim Alberts]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 15:33, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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

I think you are correct.  The first message I posted seems to be an imap 
message.  Which leaves me with the following questions:

Why is an IMAPmessage getting written with no IMAP service running?
Why after it gets written does email randomly dissappear?
Why does the SystemLogger keep telling me /var/spool/mail folder has to have 
access 777?