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From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] sendmail upgrade SOS
> Maybe the problem cleared up all by itself? It is funny, to say the least
> :)
Yeah like my sendmail 8.9 got whacked all by itself. I still don't know what
happened. A post mortem was required but I got 8.10 so I just let it go. :)
> /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
Okay understood, but what I got was an oveflowing mqueue when I had only
sent one single message. Do incoming messages have a bearing on mqueue ?
So in short it is mutt/pine to local mailbox to mqueue to internet. Right ?
> 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)
Will fetchmail hand over the mails one by one or will it download all the
mails and then hand them over to the mda en masse.
Also, does this mean that sendmail sends mail both ~to and from~ my local
mailbox ? Will (or should) mails downloaded by fetchmail appear in the local
mailbox immediately or only when all the mails have been downloaded i.e.,
fetchmail is done with its job? So here its internet to fetchmail to
sendmail to local mailbox right ? Sorry to sound DUMB but I'd be much
happier if I had my concepts clear, I seem to be in murky waters most of the
time.
> Mutt, PINE etc. are mail _readers_ which will read the contents of
> /var/spool/mail
understood.
> 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
Where do I read this ? Which command/file shows this ? I have yet to see
this message. I usually wait till the timestamp of entries in maillog stops
changing.
> ... etc, right?
>
> Or do you mean "all the mail has been SENT"?
That too, please. I usually check mqueue.
regards,
sharukh.
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