Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
> [...]
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> > - Samuel Dries-Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > | We are experiencing a wierd loss of mail files. Some users check
> > | their mail and then the entire file is deleted.
> > |
> > | 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:
> > |
> > | -rw-rw---- 1 amach mail 5629 Jan 4 11:45 amach
> >
> > What kind of delivery do you use? /bin/mail perhaps? What appears in
> > the log file when qmail doesn't deliver? (Surely it tries, and
> > fails?)
Looks to me as if you were trying to deliver to /var/spool/mail! Do you
have a Mailbox-file in each users home and a .qmail pointing to it
('./Mailbox')? If so AFTERWARDS you may set up a link from $HOME/Mailbox
to /var/spool/mail/$USER. This did work at least for me, never had
problems with POP
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