Yes, on executing su - mtwain ls -l /var/spool/mail shows -rw------ Thanks Tony On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Matías López Bergero wrote: > The user can read /var/spool/mail/user? > > 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 > > > Tony Gogoi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
