At 11:52 AM 1/4/99 -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
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>Hello:
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>We are experiencing a wierd loss of mail files. Some users check their
>mail and then the entire file is deleted.
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>Usually, if they read and delete mail or use a POP client and download
>their mail, the file exists, but it is size = 0. But in this case its just
>gone. Whats more is that qmail doesn't write any mail to a new file, it
>just holds it in the queue. Then when I manually make a file the mail is
>delivererd. The manually made file looks like this:
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>-rw-rw---- 1 amach mail 5629 Jan 4 11:45 amach
Sounds like you are effectively doing a /var/spool/mail delivery mechanism.
That is, a common directory for mailboxes in mailbox format. You don't say
in the above case, which directory that file lives in.
If it's in a common mail area such as /var/spool/mail, you must read all of
INSTALL.vsm very carefully.
If you've done that, tell us what local delivery program you are using to
store new mail. Is it procmail or the mail.local program?
Regards.
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>I was thinking it may have to do with permissions, but I'm not finding
>(or understanding :) a correlation with the perms on folks home
>directories either...
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>drwx--x--x 6 amach faculty 4096 Jan 4 09:58 /acct/faculty/amach/
>drwx--x--x 23 helena student 4096 Jan 3 09:52 /acct/student/helena/
>drwxr-xr-x 4 cdenton student 4096 Jan 4 11:35 /acct/student/cdenton/
>drwx------ 3 lawson faculty 4096 Jan 1 00:19 /acct/faculty/lawson/
>drwx------ 3 bronwen student 4096 Jan 3 20:21 /acct/student/bronwen/
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>I am trying to see if it is related to the client they are using (most are
>BSD) but still that doesn't explain (to me) why mail would be delted or
>why qmail wouldn't deliver...
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>Please help :)
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>TIA,
>
>Samuel Daffner
>Mills College ITS
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