From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 5:13:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7669D37B65D for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 05:13:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@iconnect.co.ke) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14WI0a-0000IE-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:11:41 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14WI3k-000JGr-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:14:56 +0300 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:14:56 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Paijo Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: can not retrieve email using popper Message-ID: <20010223161456.C72253@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Paijo , FBSD-Q References: <01C09D94.1EC93F80.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> <021801c09d8e$bf94f0e0$6600a8c0@benny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <021801c09d8e$bf94f0e0$6600a8c0@benny>; from "Paijo" on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:49:57PM +0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Paijo [20010223 14:58]: writing on the subject 'Re: c= an not retrieve email using popper' Paijo> I had this work for some users and fail for the other users. Paijo>=20 Paijo> Do you have any ideas? Paijo>=20 Paijo> Regards Paijo>=20 Paijo> Paijo You had messed up those others for which it failed. Paijo>=20 Paijo> ----- Original Message ----- Paijo> From: Thomas Uhrfelt Paijo> To: 'Paijo' Paijo> Cc: Paijo> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:28 PM Paijo> Subject: RE: can not retrieve email using popper Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> > You can't just remove the mail spoolfile for user bob1 - where wou= ld the Paijo> > mail then end up? What you basically specified in the alias file i= s that Paijo> > incoming mail for bobg should be placed in the spoolfiles for user= s bob Paijo> and Paijo> > bob1. But since you removed bob1's spool, of course that will fail= . What Paijo> > _might_ work is this (haven't tried this). Paijo> > Paijo> > Make a symlink called bob1 in the spooldirectory pointing to bob (= the Paijo> > spoolfile) - of couse the target spoolfile and the symlink needs t= o have Paijo> > appropiate permission set. Paijo> > Paijo> > Thomas Paijo> > Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Paijo> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Paijo>=20 -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -Will Rogers=20 --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lmJQA2k+MNyI/bERAp3qAKCspyearSZ8yCDmvKswLyIaaNed2wCfaB1W x6X7QWRW8xehjyRzj5V2lYw= =IsRQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message