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.
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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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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
forward
FORWARD(5) BSD File Formats Manual FORWARD(5)NAME
forward -- mail forwarding instructions
DESCRIPTION
The .forward file contains a list of mail addresses or programs that the user's mail should be redirected to. If the file is not present,
then no mail forwarding will be done. Mail may also be forwarded as the standard input to a program by prefixing the line with the normal
shell pipe symbol (|). If arguments are to be passed to the command, then the entire line should be enclosed in quotes. For security rea-
sons, the .forward file must be owned by the user the mail is being sent to, or by root, and the user's shell must be listed in /etc/shells.
For example, if a .forward file contained the following lines:
nobody@FreeBSD.org
"|/usr/bin/vacation nobody"
Mail would be forwarded to <nobody@FreeBSD.org> and to the program /usr/bin/vacation with the single argument nobody.
If a local user address is prefixed with a backslash character, mail is delivered directly to the user's mail spool file, bypassing further
redirection.
For example, if user chris had a .forward file containing the following lines:
chris@otherhost
chris
One copy of mail would be forwarded to chris@otherhost and another copy would be retained as mail for local user chris.
FILES
$HOME/.forward The user's forwarding instructions.
SEE ALSO aliases(5), mailaddr(7), sendmail(8)BSD July 2, 1996 BSD