On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:15:43PM -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: > I am left with 2 questions: > 1. Why is imapd/ipop3d telling me to set access to 777 on /var/spool/mail? It should be 1777 (see STICKY DIRECTORIES, in man chmod). > 2. Why is email randomly dissappearing? I doubt that mail is disappearing, it is being moved.... ;-) I suspect that mail is being moved to the local system. For example exchange can be setup to leave mail on the server or download it for local (faster) access. People that access a mail box from multiple systems have to be carefully that mail does not get downloaded to the 'other system'. Local mode Pine will do the same thing if the file 'mbox' is present. Mutt and Pine can confuse... a user. Pine will drain all mail into 'mbox' if mbox exists. Mutt will only put seen mail in 'mbox' and you have to change to '>' to see it. Evolution, netscape, and other mail tools will also do equivalent things to make remote mail boxes act local. One of the things that the pine style of tools does is add a 'meta' message in the mail box. "Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE..." In this meta message there is an X-IMAP: line and a Status: lines that helps imap/pine keep track where it is and what it is doing. This include the necessary tokens for interlocks to avoid corrupting the mail file. Since pine comes with an imapd that grocks pine style X-IMAP lines make sure you know which imapd is active. (locate imapd). It is possible to have two, three, more... ;-) -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
