From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 13:22: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B7E37B698 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0TLLT696058; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:21:29 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:21:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Chuck Rock 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> References: <005b01c08a37$2fc88a40$1805010a@epconline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005b01c08a37$2fc88a40$1805010a@epconline.net>; from carock@epconline.net on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:05:19PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message