Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:21:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Chuck Rock <carock@epconline.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent FreeBSD upgrade and mail folder messages Don't Delete This Message... Message-ID: <20010130102129.H91522@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <005b01c08a37$2fc88a40$1805010a@epconline.net>; from carock@epconline.net on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:05:19PM -0600 References: <005b01c08a37$2fc88a40$1805010a@epconline.net>
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:05:19PM -0600, Chuck Rock wrote:
> I can grep for these from my /var/mail directory, and they just appear in
> the mailboxes every so often. Most of my users are running Outlook or
> Netscape mail clients, and they download all the messages in the mail
> folders.
>
> I check my mailbox with Pine every now and then, but these other users get
> these in their mailboxes too.
>
> This just started happening with the new Sendmail that came with FreeBSD
> 4.2, and we also upgraded to Sendmail 8.11.2, but they still keep coming.
>
> Is there any new services that run periodically by default with 4.2 that
> would go through and put these messages in the user's mailboxes? I can't
> seem to find a pattern. The messages will appear overnight usually, but not
> always???
These get put in by the UW-imapd. If you're using this daemon to read
the email, it doesn't appear on the INBOX, since it ignores it internally;
but if you switch between IMAP and anything else (eg: POP3 and
Unix-text-mail), you'll see it coming up.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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