the mail trail...sendmail

[rado]

> You do curious things ;)
wow do I do curious things!!! hahaha

> If we are speaking about INBOX mail accessed via POP3, then only rsync
> the /var/spool/mail/$USER file. This is the one which counts. To be sure
> no fresh new incoming mail interferes, shut down Sendmail during the
> rsync processing. Be aware that POP3 mail clients have their own list
> about mail being read or new. That is not stored on the server side.
> 
> Alexander
timing, you are quick! 8 posts later and I posted what you speak of
right here!. 
yes, service sendmail stop first then rsync -opg /var/spool/mail/* root
(dest)/var/spool/mail/
preserve all the permissions,owners and group
hey, I am not saying this is totally complete or even totally correct
technique wise, but at least it works in this specific case. lol.
And you were w/me all the way, ty for that, Alexander!

I'm just trying to push FC3 and my ownself here w/this project. 
I am trying to use only what came on the FC3 disks for this complete
project. The only outside rpm I might use for this is Bob Chiodini's
"heartbeat". I don't even think we need that really. That's up to him if
we do or not. 

This Mail sync thing was really a major pain and if this proves that
it's all that is necessary for this then we lucky.

thx
John Rose