Re: [TCLUG:13094] qmail problems

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:22:06PM -0600, bliss wrote:
> normaly this is what /var/spool/mail looks like:
> $USER --> $HOME/Mailbox
> occasionaly my links to $HOME/Mailbox get turned into /var/spool/mail/BOGUS-$USER --> $HOME/Mailbox
> it looks like when ever i recieve an attachment this occurs.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? If so, what did you do to fix this so it
> does not occur?
> i am using qmail v1.03
> processes running are qmail-send, splogger qmail, 
> qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox, qmail-rspawn, qmail-clean.
> TIA
> bliss@treewax.com

	I had a problem similar to this after I upgraded to RH 6.1.
What happened is that during the upgrade process, it had replaced my
symlinks that were causing sendmail to point at
/var/spool/qmail/bin/sendmail with an actual copy of sendmail.  This
didn't cause a problem, except for local deliveries, and then sendmail
would move the symlink in /var/mail out to some odd name, and put a real
file in its place.

	It took me a little while to figure out what on earth was going
on.  After I figured it out though, fixing it was easy.  Isn't that
always the way it is?  *grin*

Have fun (if at all possible),
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