This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A high number of messages were downloaded, and I'm not sure where they've >been stored. /var/spool/mail/<username> seems to be an empty file. Any >clues on how to recover the downloaded mail? (If possible?)
Is procmail installed? Check /home/$user/Mail or mail or Maildir. What MTA? If it's postfix, check the value of mailbox_command or home_mailbox in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Is the host configured as a destination for the mail it's getting; if not it might be being rejected (in which case the original email accounts will be getting messages from mailer-daemon) or forwarded on (in which case the original accounts will be filling up with duplicates). >Also, any clues on how this /should/ be done? fetchmail is good; other options involve grabbing the mbox from the current mail server and using formail and procmail to filter them into users mailboxes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
