Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4626 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:55, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 17 2007 15:51, Bob Williams wrote:
> >I'm using Kontact/Kmail to collect mail from two external ISPs, no
> > problem. I have also setup an account to collect mail from
> > /var/spool/mail/bob but nothing arrives in my inbox.
>
> Check /var/log/mail, ( `mailq` and `mailq -Ac` ) when using sendmail.
>
I'm not using sendmail. I post directly to my ISP's SMTP server as I have an 
always on connection through my router.

> >'You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/bob'
> >
> >That directory contains an empty file called bob,
>
> Hah. It looks like something steals your mails from the system
> mailbox (it's timestamp got updated as part of the process and you
> got the notification). Possibly kontact/kmail/thunderbird/anything
> else that does not directly deal with MBOX (like pine).
>
Interesting thought, but I don't understand. I'm only using kmail AFAIK.

Thanks for your interest, J
-- 
Bob

SuSE Linux 10.2, KDE 3.5.5	http://bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html
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