Re: smail question

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Marlon Urias wrote:
> Recently we had the problem that the smail server did not properly
> mount /var/spool/mail/ from the spool server. This caused all incoming
> mail to either be lost or put into the errors directory. My question is:
> How did smail know not to use the local /var/spol/mail and what did

Check the permissions of /var/spool/mail.

> smail do with the email that came in during the trouble zone?

Doh!  What do the logfiles say?  In either case I'd say, re-produce
it and look what happens.

Regards,

	Joey

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