From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 3:56:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cbn.net.id (smtp2.cbn.net.id [202.158.2.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB1B37B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psutomo@yahoo.com) Received: from benny (unknown [202.158.59.229]) by smtp2.cbn.net.id (Postfix) with SMTP id 2854F53549; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:56:48 +0700 (JAVT) Message-ID: <021801c09d8e$bf94f0e0$6600a8c0@benny> From: "Paijo" To: Cc: References: <01C09D94.1EC93F80.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Subject: Re: can not retrieve email using popper Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:49:57 +0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had this work for some users and fail for the other users. Do you have any ideas? Regards Paijo ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Uhrfelt To: 'Paijo' Cc: Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: RE: can not retrieve email using popper > You can't just remove the mail spoolfile for user bob1 - where would the > mail then end up? What you basically specified in the alias file is that > incoming mail for bobg should be placed in the spoolfiles for users bob and > bob1. But since you removed bob1's spool, of course that will fail. What > _might_ work is this (haven't tried this). > > Make a symlink called bob1 in the spooldirectory pointing to bob (the > spoolfile) - of couse the target spoolfile and the symlink needs to have > appropiate permission set. > > Thomas > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message