On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:01:20PM -0700, Duane L. wrote:
> <fair warning>
> This is possibly a stupid question, but I don't know where to look for an
> answer. If you feel you must flame me, please spare the list and email me
> directly.
> </fair warning>
>
> Running qmail 1.03 on SunOS 5.6 Had a user complaining that an important
> email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this
> file ...
> -rw------- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK
>
> looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the
> user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to.
>
> Questions:
> Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ?
How do you know they weren't? All you know is that a copy showed up
in the BOGUS.* file.
> Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help
> to prevent this problem in the future.
No. It's entirely something specific to your site. Furthermore, it has
been created by root and, qmail does not run any user processes as
root - ever. Who has root on that system? Have you asked all those people?
> Any insights greatly apreciated.
Show us the logs of the delivery of those emails. You have the headers
of those mails so you can find the log framents.
Also, you need to tell us more about your qmail installation. Is it standard
or is it modified in some way? What delivery instructions are there for the
user in question?
Regards.
