I get this same AFAIK activity on a system that uses Sendmail when I
retrieve my mail through MS Outlook through POP3. It must be the POP
daemon.
Scott Burkhalter
VP Engineering & Technology
Entyre Doc Prep, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 10:47 AM
To: Qmail List
Cc: Adam D. McKenna; Jim Baxter
Subject: Re: small problem
"Adam D. McKenna" wrote:
>
> From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> : "Adam D. McKenna" wrote:
> : >
> : > From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> : >
> : > : AFAIK this is a quirk of the mbox format. You could migrate to
Maildir
> : > : format (depending on which MUA your Unix users use) or simply ignore
> : > : these messages and go on with life.
> : >
> : > I am pretty sure this has to do with PINE and not qmail in any way.
> :
> : Isn't PINE one of those which don't read Maildirs? I can't see how a MUA
> : that reads via POP could stuff these bogus messages on a mailbox.
>
> Well whatever it is, it's not qmail. I used cucipop with a mbox format
for
> quite a while with qmail and never got any messages like this. It's most
> likely the POP daemon doing this.
Bingo! That should be the cause. So using a different pop server (for
instance qmail's own) will solve Mr. Baxter's problem. And switching to
Maildir is healthy anyway.
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