Ken Yap wrote:
>
> >> And to top it off today, I've just received a duplicate of every mail
> >> I've ever received between mid Sept and mid October (so far). This
> >> includes stuff that was deleted from the inbox and trash. My Slug
> >> archive for October will be stuffed with duplicate messages. It was hit
> >> before I realised what was going on. The worst part is the messages from
> >> lists that I've unsubscribed from and deleted the mail filters which are
> >> flooding my inbox.
> >
> >> Anyway, if anyone has any ideas, much appreciated.
>
> Maybe you used to retain read mail at server, and now you did a
> fetchall?
No, I swapped from Netscape 4.72 on RH6.0 to netscape 4.72 on Suse6.4
and I knew something was wrong because the pop collection of mail from
the server (different box) didn't finish quickly, but must have been
hanging on until it timed out.
What has been happening is that a duplicate of all mail to terryc has
been going into mailserver:/home/terryc/mbox which has me scratching my
head as to why. I don't run a mailer on that.I run the mail client on
another box.
Bing - it must be fetchmail. It is run as terryc on the mailserver box,
so I gather it must put stuff into mbox before it hands it over to the
server. But the netscape client isn't working properly, so mbox isn't
being cleared. And for some reason today, it started to recollect
everything. Perhaps netscape rolled over a counter or something. In
anycase, the same messages were still in mbox (now renamed) until a few
minutes ago.
So three places to look for mail
/var/spool/mqueue
/var/spool/mail/user
/home/user/mbox if you run something like fetchmail.
Well, that is my 2c on it now.
In any case, Suse & Netscape is getting the chop and I'm going to try
Debian and individual stuff
Thnaks Ken
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