On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:30:09PM -0400, Alex Pennace wrote:
> 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
> >
There is a mail client that creates BOGUS.* files. I can't remember
which one.
> > 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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