Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:00:11 -0700 From: "Jim Barker" <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk, "David Wolfskill" <dhw@whistle.com> Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <EJMAJBPGEJLBCAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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excellent description...I'm seeing the light at the end of the sendmail tunnel. I appreciate everyone's help, thank you. I executed sendmail -q and everything magically appeared....woo hoo!!! Now, all I have to do is change that in my /etc/sysconfig file and I'll be all good. > >>I did not see any subdirectories under /var/mail, such as jimbark. >>I did try to run mail, but it said I had no mail. >>More appropiately "jimbark has no mail". > >Assuming you're using the usual UNIX "local mail delivery agent" (as >your configuration (which I elided) showed, and which is >/usr/libexec/mail.local in FreeBSD-2.2), the objects in /var/mail are >simple files (rather than directories), in "UNIX mailbox" format. > >In this format, a given mailbox is a file that consists of messages >concatenated together; the beginning of a new message is indicated by >the existence of a line matching the pattern /^From /. > >The usual mail "client programs" (or "MUAs"), as well as the usual POP >servers, can generally read this format without jumping through hoops. > >david >-- >David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator >dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 > -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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