"Eric LaLonde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've moved the file /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox and made a
>symbolic link back to /var/spool/mail/user, but it doesn't seem to
>stay. It will say that I have new mail in /var/spool/mail/user, and
>then when i go to view that mail via 'mail', it gives me this
>message:
>
>This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is
>not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system
>software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it
>will be re-created with the data reset to initial values.
>
>I then quit out of mail, it saves it to mbox, and then the link
>/var/spool/mail/user is gone. This line is in my maillog: Jan 25
>13:36:52 damacles procmail[5961]: Renamed bogus
>"/var/spool/mail/root" into "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.root.VUJ"
>
>Why is this happening, and why aren't my links sticking, and what
>should i do?
Procmail doesn't like the symlink in /var/spool/mail so it renames
it. The fix is to read INSTALL.mbox and follow the directions for
configuring the mail reader to look directly in ~user/Mailbox.
-Dave
