On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:01:20PM -0700, Duane L. wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help
> to prevent this problem in the future.
The BOGUS files almost certainly came from procmail, when it discovered
that something was odd (in its opinion) with directory permissions or
some such.
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
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