The mail file in the directory var/spool/mail is very large. Can I zero this (>) without losing any unopened mails there may be? There are about 10 mail accounts. Using RedHat Linux.
Thanks in advance. (0 Replies)
Dear All,
Now I use solaris 10 and I try to forward mail from /var/mail/username to their external mail so what should I do?
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Hi,
How can i get my mail on either /var/spool/mail or /var/mail?
I use mail and sendmail command to send mail. But everytime I send mail it comes to my outlook inbox and when I check with mail command I get the message "No mail for siba". (Note siba is my user Id.) (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a bunch of cron jobs in the crontab. For some reason mail from the cron jobs started going to /var/spool/mqueue instead of being sent.
Does anyone know why mail from cron jobs would go to the queue instead of being sent? (9 Replies)
Hi all...
We have a box that receives a lot of incoming emails. I have a .procmailrc file that in turn invokes a python script, which process each of these incoming email. All is nice and good.
However, before the .procmailrc and python script were in place, we still were receiving emails and... (0 Replies)
Hi
When an entry will be made to the file /var/mail/<user-id> .
I have 100 scripts under a specific user id(dgircc) in cron .SO inrder to check the whether the script has sucessfully run or not and if not to generate an email
if i mention the code like
#!/bin/ksh -p
2 fsize=`ls -lrt... (0 Replies)
i have sun machines having solaris 9 & 10 OS . Now i need to send mail from the machines to my outlook account . I have the ip adress of OUTLOOK mail server. Now what are the setting i need to do in solaris machines so that i can use mailx or sendmail.
actually i am trying to automate the high... (2 Replies)
Hi
My box is running with AIX 6100-06 and Im the root user of this box
My /var gets filled up often to 100%
When I investigate I find that it is the below file which increases rapidly
/var/spool/mail/pdgadmin
I dont know why this file is growing up.
Can any one assist me on this.... (2 Replies)
I am having trouble getting mail to work on a red hat server. At first I was getting this message.
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; delivery temporarily suspended: connect to :25: Connection refused
Then added the port to my firewall. Then I temporarily turned off selinux. I then copied this file... (1 Reply)
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msgchk
msgchk(1mh)msgchk(1mh)Name
msgchk - check for messages
Syntax
msgchk [ -help ] [ -nodate ] [ -notify all|mail|nomail ] [ users ... ]
Description
The program checks all known mail drops for mail that is waiting for you. It displays whether you have mail waiting to be read or not and
shows the date that you last read your mail.
You can check other user's maildrops by specifying their user names as the users argument on the command line.
Options-help Prints a list of the valid options for this command.
-date
-nodate Prints the date when you last read your mail. This is the default behavior of The -nodate option can be used of you do not want
to print this date.
-notify
-nonotify Indicates under what circumstances should produce a message. There are three legal values: all, mail, and nomail. The default
is -notify all, which reports the status of the maildrop regardless of whether it has mail in it or not. The -notify mail option
reports the status of the maildrop only if there is mail waiting. The -notify nomail option reports the status of the maildrop
only if there is no mail in it.
-source file
Specifies the source which are checked for mail. The only value allowed is file, which is the user's maildrop. Additional val-
ues are supported only for use with other mail systems.
Restrictions
does not understand the $MAILDROP environmental variable. If mail is fetched from a location other than will not be able to determine if
new mail has arrived. However, can still be used to fetch mail when it arrives.
For this version, the -source option only supports the value file. Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.
Examples
This example shows a user Smith checking his own maildrop:
% msgchk
Smith:
New file source mail waiting ; last read on Tue, 07 Jun 88 17
:21:49 WET
The next example shows a user checking the maildrops of two other local users on the same system, Rabb and Jones:
% msgchk Rabb Jones
Rabb:
No file-source mail waiting ; last read on Tue, 07 Jun 13:22:
25 WET
Jones:
New file source mail waiting ; last read on Tue, 07 Jun 17:30
:05 WET
Files
The user profile.
The system customization file.
The user's maildrop.
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