On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:35:16PM +0530, Nitin wrote: > I'm talking about server side of my sendmail. I used mail utility of Linux > to check the mail and it now doesn't show the messages printed once. There's > an option 'unread' but it can only be used, while you are still in the > session...... > > Using Sendmail 8.9.3 on Redhat Linux 7.2. sendmail is a mail transfer agent - MTA for short. It only receives and sends e-mail and has no user components. You do not interact with sendmail when you're reading your e-mail - sendmail has already passed it off to a mail delivery agent (MDA) which has stored the message somewhere. You then run a mail user agent (MUA) like evolution, mutt, pine, etc. It's the MUA that decides to delete or keep your read e-mail or mark it read/unread. What application are you starting up to read your e-mail? Are you reading via local files, pop, or imap? > There's absolutely no messagebox file like there should be in > /var/spool/mail. So what happened to those messages? are they deleted as > soon as read ? There are a lot of variables - if you read via pop with a delete after read setting, then yes, they may have been deleted. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
