Re[2]: ipop3d not moving mail from /var/spool/mail to mbox
wasnt /var/spool/mail a symlink to /var/mail anyway?
> 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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