Re: ipop3d not moving mail from /var/spool/mail to mbox
That's something to check, and ... does some one know why exactly did that
happen ( the transition from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail), and why the
upgrade scripts didn't handle that ... I had some very funny problems...
One ovf them being the lack of email for abuse@domain account :)
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Alexander List wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jarno Elonen wrote:
>
> > After a recent system update, ipop3d stopped moving users' mail from
> > /var/spool/mail to mbox. Now both 'mail' command and pop3 clients show empty
> > mailbox even if exim has in fact pumped /var/spool/mail full of new messages.
>
> Huomenta!
>
> No concrete solution to the problem, but did you notice that the default
> location for the mailboxes has changed from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail?
>
> Try stracing the ipop3d process and look what exactly it's doing...
>
> Alex
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