Re: fetchmail (or maybe exim) eats messages

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

> A friend accidently messed with his mail spool file, ie
>          /var/spool/mail/bill
> resulting in the ownership of the file changing to root.
> 
> When he tried to do fetchmail, it happily fetched 40 messages, but
> when he tried to look at them, they weren't there.  Presumably this is
> because of the ownership thing, but there was no error message, and
> the messages have simply vanished!
> 
> Are these messages lost forever?

I think I've just answered my own question.  An error message is
returned to the sender saying the message could not be delivered.

Mark.



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