Please help as soon as possible

[MKlinke]

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 11:05, you wrote:
> I'm talking about server side of my sendmail. I used mail utility
> of Linux to check the mail and it now doesn't show the messages
> printed once. There's an option 'unread' but it can only be used,
> while you are still in the session......
>
> Using Sendmail 8.9.3 on Redhat Linux 7.2.
>
> There's absolutely no messagebox file like there should be in
> /var/spool/mail. So what happened to those messages? are they
> deleted as soon as read ?
>
> Any help or links will b highly appreciated..
>
> Thanks

I don't use the "mail" utililty but a quick look at the documentation
shows that each user should have a file name "mbox" in his home
directory where mail is sent.  If that's not what you see, perhaps
someone else more familiar will jump in here.

Regards,  Mike Klinke