On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:55, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 17 2007 15:51, Bob Williams wrote: > >I'm using Kontact/Kmail to collect mail from two external ISPs, no > > problem. I have also setup an account to collect mail from > > /var/spool/mail/bob but nothing arrives in my inbox. > > Check /var/log/mail, ( `mailq` and `mailq -Ac` ) when using sendmail. > I'm not using sendmail. I post directly to my ISP's SMTP server as I have an always on connection through my router.
> >'You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/bob' > > > >That directory contains an empty file called bob, > > Hah. It looks like something steals your mails from the system > mailbox (it's timestamp got updated as part of the process and you > got the notification). Possibly kontact/kmail/thunderbird/anything > else that does not directly deal with MBOX (like pine). > Interesting thought, but I don't understand. I'm only using kmail AFAIK. Thanks for your interest, J -- Bob SuSE Linux 10.2, KDE 3.5.5 http://bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
