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From: "Matías López Bergero" <mlopezb@udesa.edu.ar>
To: Tony Gogoi <tgogoi@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about mail server
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:47:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404F7ECB.6020308@udesa.edu.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.56.0403101443550.21282@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

The user can read /var/spool/mail/user?

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



  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-10 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-10 19:55 Question about mail server Tony Gogoi
2004-03-10 20:47 ` Matías López Bergero [this message]
2004-03-10 21:18   ` Tony Gogoi
2004-03-10 21:33   ` Adam Lang
2004-03-10 22:45 ` Jeffrey Morse
2004-03-11 16:45   ` Tony Gogoi
2004-03-11 17:01     ` Adam Lang
2004-03-11 17:02       ` Tony Gogoi
2004-03-11 18:18         ` Bad sectors that come and go Darío Mariani

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