/var/spool/mail

[William Wallace]

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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, George Daflidis-Kotsis wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:16:40 +0000
> From: George Daflidis-Kotsis <gdk at thus.net>
> To: Linux Greek Users Mailing List <linux-greek-users at hellug.gr>
> Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail
> 
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:58:07PM +0200, William Wallace wrote:
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>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Stavros Giannouris wrote:
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>>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:48:00 +0200
>>> From: Stavros Giannouris <alby at freemail.gr>
>>> To: Apostolis Hardalias <hardas at students.cs.unipi.gr>,
>>>    Linux Greek Users <linux-greek-users at lists.hellug.gr>
>>> Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail
>>>
>>> Στις 20-03-2005, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 14:58 +0200, ο/η Apostolis Hardalias
>>> έγραψε:
>>>> Na dior8wsw ton eauto mou, telika isxuei to anapodo. To /var/spool/mail
>>>> einai symbolic link sto /var/mail :)
>>>>
>>> Oxi aparaitita. Eksartatai apo to stisimo panta:
>>>
>>> [15:43]stavrosg at lorien openttd$ ls -l /var/mail
>>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 2005-03-03 16:57 /var/mail -> spool/mail
>>> [15:46]stavrosg at lorien openttd$
>>
>> sto mixanima pou anaferomai einai dio diaforetika directories pou den
>> exoun kamia sxesi metaksi tous (ektos fisika apo to oti kai sta 2 iparxei
>> ena arxeio me onoma to username tou xristi kai ta mail tou). H arxiki mou
>> erwtisi itan to _GIATI_ kapoia mail (pou o xristis pernei me fetchmail
>> apo remote mailserver) pane sto /var/spool/mail/${USER} kai kapoia sto
>> /var/mail/${USER}
>
> Giati kati sto susthma sou einai ru8mismeno na kanei default deliveries sto
> /var/spool/mail${USER} , kati allo einai ru8mismeno na ta kanei sto
> /var/mail/${USER} , p.x. to sendmail kai to fetchmail antistoixa?
>
> Sigoura isxuei auto pou eipes sto telos? Mhpws p.x. kapote etrexes sendmail
> pou by default ta stelnei sto /var/spool/mail kai meta ekanes upgrade se
> exim pou by default ta stelnei sto /var/mail opote uparxoun mails sto
> /var/spool/mail alla exoun timestamp prin apo ena xrono?

Otan to prwtoestisa to sistima (konta 2 xronia twra) eixe sendmail.
kapoia stigmi sta plaisia tis prostasias tou apo tous kakous (ekei sto 
agnwsto "somewhere out there") evala postfix. Xtes entelws tixaia vrika 
kapoia email pou ipotithete oti eprepe na lavw tin proigoumeni vdomada sto 
/var/mail/${USER}, ta vrika sto /var/spool/mail/${USER} oxi mono gia mena, 
alla kai gia tous allous xristes tou mixanimatos. Opote evloga mou 
dimiourgithike i aporia gia ton logo pou kapoia mail pigane sto 
/var/spool/mail kai oxi sto /var/mail as they supposed to be.
Afta!

> -- 
> [george daflidis-kotsis - systems administrator - mnw/msts - gdk at thus.net]
>
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