Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> On 01/08/00 05:43 +0530, L.V.Gandhi spewed into the LI bitstream:
>
> > with pine i get response as in nor proper mail format. With kmail i get
> > response no mail, but the mail is deleted. Where I can go wrong.
>
> Check the permissions - /var/spool/mail directory should be world writeable,
> individual files inside should have rw for the respective user.
When mail is distributed it goes to the particular userid. That can be
seen. The mail can be read using any text editor.( Further mail folder
and users belong to mail group. and the folder and users are having
group rw permissions. )
> > :0
>
> Maybe this unlocked state (use :0: to set locks) might have corrupted your
> mailbox? Try viewing it with vi and deleting junk characters etc.
I have not found any junk characters with text editor joe or gnotepad. I
will try lock.
> Also netscape / kmail etc use their own mailbox formats. Mutt / Pine read from
> /var/spool/mail
When I send mail in local loop, mails can be read by both kmail, pine
and mail. But mails brought by fetchmail and distributed using procmail
couldn't be read by pine or by mail. Mail says no mail irrespective of
the fact when I login as particular user i get msg 'you have a mail'.
Pine says mail is not in proper format.
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