My two cents with rbattel, those are unread messages, figure out why it is generating it, by logging in as that user and running mail (as mentioned by rbattel).
Also, check your cron, see if you are missing > /dev/null 2>&1 for jobs.
Also check if you have the correct smtp server name in /etc/sendmail.cf file
If it does not then add the server name and restart the sendmail service.
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i am on aix,
in the /var/spool/mail ,i have an entry as below, after doing a ls -ltr
-rw-rw---- 1 ai mail 3898 Sep 02 11:26 mei
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 22900 Nov 08 14:55 root
shouldnt the ai and mei be the same just like root, root?
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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,
We have all the user account in a home direcory where their mail is stored and retrieved by email clients. We do however have /var/spool/mail with all the user accounts in it as well Our sendmail.cf is configured to use /var/spool/mqueue as the queue so .what is /var/spool/mail being used... (3 Replies)
Hi,
First Question: In our company our users have their mailboxes in /var/spool/mail
When I look at the users file it seems as if every email sent/received is in that user file! Is this because IMAP is being used or is that just how sendmail works?
Second Question: How is that when I create... (3 Replies)
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)
Hi,
I have some problems w/ the sendmail. I see that messages are queued in the /var/spool/mqueue
and they are never sent to the recipients. This problem just suddenly started without any modifications in the current configuration. I already started and stop the sendmail and it did not help.... (3 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
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)
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faxlock
FAXLOCK(8) System Manager's Manual FAXLOCK(8)NAME
faxlock - tell a HylaFAX server to switch to LOCKWAIT state
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/faxlock [ -q dir ] modem
DESCRIPTION
faxlock sends a message to a HylaFAX faxgetty(8) process servicing modem telling it to change its state to LOCKWAIT
The specified modem can either be the name (typically the last component of the terminal port the modem is attached to), or the full name
of the associated FIFO named pipe file, e.g. ``FIFO.ttym2''.
OPTIONS -q dir Use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax.
NOTES
When faxgetty changes it's state to LOCKWAIT, it will start looking for the UUCP lockfile for the device, and when the device is no longer
locked, proceed to re-initialize the modem.
FILES
/var/spool/hylafax default spooling area
/var/spool/hylafax/FIFO fifo for contacting faxq
Consult hylafax-server(5) for a complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area.
SEE ALSO hylafax-server(5), faxq(8), faxgetty(8)
March 3, 1995 FAXLOCK(8)