On Mon, 8 May 2000, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
spavri> I downloaded libsasl and the sendmail rpms from nstc.com,
spavri> you sent me the link remember.
Oh yeah.... if you still face a hassle, you can download the sendmail rpms
from ftp.redhat.com (download both sendmail and sendmail-cf rpms)
spavri> But that's how it is happening. and besides, mqueue is
spavri> overflowing. (one reboot later) .... Sorry, ~was~
spavri> overflowing. I rebooted into linux, and all the mail was
spavri> there
Maybe the problem cleared up all by itself? It is funny, to say the least
:)
/var/spool/mqueue is where mails are queued (from all logins on your box)
before sending (assuming you have remembered to set 0 holdexpensive=true).
Your mailbox is /var/spool/mail/spavri
spavri> Can someone explain where a mail message actually goes
spavri> once it is downloaded onto your machine ? Who takes hold
spavri> of it, fetchmail ? procmail ?
You download it using your pop3 client (Say fetchmail)
The local mda takes over at this point. It may be sendmail, or something
else you have specified as the mda (using the mda <whatever> tag)
Mutt, PINE etc. are mail _readers_ which will read the contents of
/var/spool/mail
spavri> How does one know that all the mail has been downloaded,
spavri> other than looking at maillog ?
Fetchmail says downloading message 1 of 25
... flushed
... etc, right?
Or do you mean "all the mail has been SENT"?
Please clarify ...
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