Tony Gogoi wrote:
Hello,
What can be possible reasons for which a mail client (Outlook Express) does not retrieve mail from the Linux mail server ?
I created a user account "mtwain" on a mail server. Any mail sent to this account gets appended to /var/spool/mail/mtwain which means messages correctly enter mtwain's mailbox (on the server).
However, outlook express is not able to retrieve mails from /var/spool/mail of the linux server. All it displays are "no new messages" each time even though the account on Outlook express has been set to POP3 and mtwain and /var/spool/mail/mtwain still has messages in it.
/var/spool/mail of the mail server resides on an NFS server which is correctly mounted as one can view the contents of /var/spool/mail from the email server.
This problem is for any new user account only. And there are no problems for mtwain to send mail as well.
Thanks, Tony
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