Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d

[Tim Alberts]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 15:47, Tim Alberts wrote:
> 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?

Oh yeah, and why doesn't that message get put into all user mailboxes?