From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey Morse Subject: Re: Question about mail server Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:45:58 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040310224557.GA18002@m4cc.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tony Gogoi Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org If you connect to the server from a telnet session using the mtwain account can you see that the mailbox has messages in it? Use the "top" command from within the telnet session to view the message body. --Jeff * On [03-10-2004 14:55 -0500] Tony Gogoi wrote: > > Hello, > > What can be possible reasons for which a mail client (Outlook Express) > does not retrieve mail from the Linux mail server ? > > I created a user account "mtwain" on a mail server. Any mail sent to this > account gets appended to /var/spool/mail/mtwain which means messages > correctly enter mtwain's mailbox (on the server). > > However, outlook express is not able to retrieve mails from > /var/spool/mail of the linux server. All it displays are "no new messages" > each time even though the account on Outlook express has been set to POP3 > and mtwain and /var/spool/mail/mtwain still has messages in it. > > /var/spool/mail of the mail server resides on an NFS server which is > correctly mounted as one can view the contents of /var/spool/mail from the > email server. > > This problem is for any new user account only. And there are no problems > for mtwain to send mail as well. > > > Thanks, > Tony > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html