From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 3:30:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nexus.plymovent.se (nexus.plymovent.se [212.247.77.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C252A37B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from tu ([192.168.1.200]) by nexus.plymovent.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA75628; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:17:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:28:26 +0100 Message-ID: <01C09D94.1EC93F80.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> From: Thomas Uhrfelt Reply-To: "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" To: "'Paijo'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: can not retrieve email using popper Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:28:24 +0100 Organization: PlymoVent AB X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet-e-post/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can't just remove the mail spoolfile for user bob1 - where would the mail then end up? What you basically specified in the alias file is that incoming mail for bobg should be placed in the spoolfiles for users bob and bob1. But since you removed bob1's spool, of course that will fail. What _might_ work is this (haven't tried this). Make a symlink called bob1 in the spooldirectory pointing to bob (the spoolfile) - of couse the target spoolfile and the symlink needs to have appropiate permission set. Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Paijo [SMTP:psutomo@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: can not retrieve email using popper Hi, I have just created some new accounts. This new accounts were intended as a backup email account for the other accounts. For example my existing accouts are bob and john. And my new accounts is bob1 and john1. I want bob1 to receive the same messages as bob and so john1. I did this by manipulating the aliases file like this -> bobg: bob, bob1 johnm: john, john1 And then I replaced newly created /var/mail/bob1 file with /var/mail/bob file. But, what happened is, I got this error message from the popper daemon when I tried to retrieve messages for account bob1: unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes Here is my software specification OS: FreeBSD 3.4 RELEASE MTA: Sendmail Pro 8.9.3 POP3D: popper I really appreciate if someone could give some advise or assist me to solve this problem. Thanks, Paijo << File: ATT00033.htm >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message