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05-20-2008

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Finally i got the source of that message.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION :

It is the default behaviour of the "mail" utility to write all the read but undeleted mails to a file.The default file is "mbox" under the home directory.

extract from man mail
"You can end a mail session with the quit `q ' ) command. Messages which have been examined go to your mbox file unless they have been deleted in which case they are discarded. Unexamined messages go back to the post office."

This will happen once you quit the mailbox after reading mail and without deleting the read mails.

"quit
(q ) Terminates the session, saving all undeleted, unsaved messages in the user's mbox file in his login directory, preserving all messages marked with hold or preserve or never referenced in his system mailbox, and removing all other messages from his system mailbox."

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Dileep

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mailsnarf

MAILSNARF(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      MAILSNARF(8)

NAME

       mailsnarf - sniff mail messages in Berkeley mbox format

SYNOPSIS

       mailsnarf [-i interface | -p pcapfile] [[-v] pattern [expression]]

DESCRIPTION

       mailsnarf  outputs  e-mail  messages  sniffed  from  SMTP  and POP traffic in Berkeley mbox format, suitable for offline browsing with your
       favorite mail reader (mail(1), pine(1), etc.).

OPTIONS

       -i interface
	      Specify the interface to listen on.

       -p pcapfile
	      Process packets from the specified PCAP capture file instead of the network.

       -v     "Versus" mode. Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching messages.

       pattern
	      Specify regular expression for message header/body matching.

       expression
	      Specify a tcpdump(8) filter expression to select traffic to sniff.

SEE ALSO

       dsniff(8), mail(1), pine(1)

AUTHOR

       Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org>

																      MAILSNARF(8)