[opensuse] Where's my local mail?
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. OTOH, following activity in a terminal window, I sometimes get the message 'You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/bob' That directory contains an empty file called bob, and a locked file called root. Presumably the latter is there because at installation I opted to direct root's mail to this user? Shouldn't I be able to read it, in that case? What's going on (or not)? -- Bob SuSE Linux 10.2, KDE 3.5.5 http://bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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.
'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). and a locked file called
root. Presumably the latter is there because at installation I opted to direct root's mail to this user? Shouldn't I be able to read it, in that case?
What's going on (or not)? -- Bob
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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Bob Williams
I'm not using sendmail. I post directly to my ISP's SMTP server as I have an always on connection through my router.
then how does your mail get from your computer to your ISP. I believe that you said you were using "local" mail via Kontact/KMail, "I'm using Kontact/Kmail to collect mail from two external ISPs, no problem." If you are not using sendmail or some other smtp, how are you sending mail? The mails you are loosing, do they appear in kmail or just go to oblivion? Send a test mail to root and see what happens in /var/spool/mail do you have ~/Mail or ~/mail -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-01-17 at 15:51 -0000, 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.
OTOH, following activity in a terminal window, I sometimes get the message
'You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/bob'
That directory contains an empty file called bob, and a locked file called root. Presumably the latter is there because at installation I opted to direct root's mail to this user? Shouldn't I be able to read it, in that case?
Check the sizes of both files. One is your local mail, the root one is root's mail (non redirected). Normal use now is to redirect root's mail to some user in "/etc/aliases": root: bob If the size of the 'bob' file is zero, there is no mail, or it has been retrieved already. Also, read KMail help; there is a topic on "getting system mail" or some thing similar, that explains how to tell KMail to read that '/var/spool/mail/bob' file. I don't remember the trick offhand. You can use the command "mail" in a konsole to send test mails to 'bob', and see them appearing (or not). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFrs2ptTMYHG2NR9URArvUAJ9DqVfdLGkouZnWM2rylfb7ErRC7gCcDFmE eC5+4EdvagJLlca0IG4XjEU= =wXlj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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