Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d

[Paul Dubinsky]

At 05:51 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:41:46 -0700
>From: Tim Alberts <talberts at msiscales.com>
>Subject: Re: Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d
>To: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>,       For users of
>         Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>,  Rick Stevens
>         <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
>Message-ID: <200404221341.46662.talberts at msiscales.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="us-ascii"
>
>"directly editing or accessing the $user mbox file in the spool using an
>editor IS BAD and nothing you should do!"
>
>I think you may have found the problem.  I do not edit the
>/var/spool/mail/user files, however, I do delete and move them from system to
>system (changing file permissions along the way to match what they were).
>
>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

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