On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:00:58PM -0700, Duane L. wrote:
> [...] Had a user complaining that an important
> email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this  
> file ...
> -rw-------   1 root     users       12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK
> 
> looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the
> user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to.  
> 
> Questions:
> Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ?   
> 
> Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help
> to prevent this problem in the future.

No, qmail doesn't generate BOGUS files by itself. Something is causing
qmail to generate it. What do the logs say?

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