If you connect to the server from a telnet session using the mtwain account can you see that the mailbox has messages in it? Use the "top" command from within the telnet session to view the message body. --Jeff * On [03-10-2004 14:55 -0500] Tony Gogoi <tgogoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
