Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:13:43 +0700 From: "Paijo" <psutomo@yahoo.com> To: "Odhiambo Washington" <wash@iconnect.co.ke>, <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can not retrieve email using popper Message-ID: <012e01c09e52$d9e2cc00$6600a8c0@benny> References: <01C09D94.1EC93F80.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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Hi, Thanks for your response. I've made a symbolic link called bob1 pointing to bob spool file, but I can not set change the file owner. When I set bob1 as the owner of the symlink bob1, I actually set bob1 as the owner of bob spoolfile. Another problem is, I've tried to create symlink file bob1 and set its owner to bob1. I can normally retrieve the message for bob1, but bob's spool file became empty (there will be no messages for bob). I was wondering also, because only 2 users of more than 200 users who got this problem. I've been doing this for the users and I've seen no problem at all. I still need your helps..... Best regards, Paijo ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> To: 'Paijo' <psutomo@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: RE: can not retrieve email using popper > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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