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From: "John Brown" <jbrown@vafibre.com>
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Subject: Mail Woes
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:51:08 -0400
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I am attempting to setup sendmail/procmail and qpopper to work on my server
and am goint through fits. Here's the problem...

I have setup procmail as the local delivery agent by changing the
sendmail.cf Mlocal parameter and I have setup procmail to store mail in
$HOME/.mail

This works great, the mail is going to the correct place when it's received.
The problem is that in order to get qpopper to work I setup a symbolic link
in "/var/mail" to point to the $HOME/.mail file to get the actual data. Now
when a message is received via procmail my symbolic link is renamed to
BOGUS.X in var/mail and a blank file is created in it's place.

So, The question is... What am I doing wrong? I have tried changing some of
the mail folder designations in the actual programs and have attempted to do
a "make" but get that the software is up to date. (Can you tell I'm a
newbie)

HELP!!!