Was there any modifications that was done to the file? Certain characters are sued to mark read and unread messages and ones set for download. If any of the characters are messed up, it will assume there are no messages to download. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matías López Bergero" <mlopezb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Tony Gogoi" <tgogoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:47 PM Subject: Re: Question about mail server > 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 > > > - > : 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 - : 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
