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The Wednesday 2007-01-17 at 15:51 -0000, 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.
>
> OTOH, following activity in a terminal window, I sometimes get the message
>
> 'You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/bob'
>
> That directory contains an empty file called bob, and a locked file called
> root. Presumably the latter is there because at installation I opted to
> direct root's mail to this user? Shouldn't I be able to read it, in that
> case?
Check the sizes of both files. One is your local mail, the root one is
root's mail (non redirected). Normal use now is to redirect root's mail to
some user in "/etc/aliases":
root: bob
If the size of the 'bob' file is zero, there is no mail, or it has been
retrieved already.
Also, read KMail help; there is a topic on "getting system mail" or some
thing similar, that explains how to tell KMail to read that
'/var/spool/mail/bob' file. I don't remember the trick offhand.
You can use the command "mail" in a konsole to send test mails to 'bob',
and see them appearing (or not).
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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