[NTLUG:Discuss] Local mail problem

[Greg Hewett]

You are setting up a mail server in your small network, and you want the other
several computers to be able to pop their mail from your mail server. Is this
part working yet?

You could use pop instead of the local mbox to talk to your local machine.

It sounds as though netscape or evolution put down a lock file, and forgive me
if I am wrong.  I have not delt with local mail in a while.  There should be a
file in you /var/spool/mail folder that you should delete in order to get you
local spool mail working again.  If this path is not correct.  The error that
you were talking about might be able to get you closer to the path that you
want to be looking at.  This lock is just a mediator between the plethora of
mail clients that could be reading this file.  If you are sure that none of
the mail clients it is safe to delete this.

not to complicate your situation, but I have also seen stale lock files from
the pop servers if there is not enough free space in /var/spool/mail.

Anyway,  probably too much info, weed through it if you need, and let us know
what happens.

Greg


On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:43:27PM -0500, Patrick Parks wrote:
> yes, I am definately liking evolution :) And you are correct, I dont think
> Imap is what I want to use. I have 3 mchines on tmy network, all on a cable
> modem. I want to use my local mail, and have it pop to all of my internet
> mail accounts, so that I can check just the local mail, and get all of my
> e-mail. Now, I have tried using the mail sppol option in Evolution, and I
> get an error message, something to the effect of var lock or something. I am
> sorry I can not give a more descriptive account of what is happening, my box
> that I am talking about is currently in windows, and transfering a 4 gig
> directory to one of my linux boxes, so I can not boot to linux at the
> moment. As soon as it is finished, I will reboot and give a better
> description of what is happening, thanks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Greg Hewett
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Local mail problem
> 
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> The fact that you can say that you can get mail from the "mail" command, but
> you cannot get it from netscape tells me that in fact that your mail is
> "routed" to your local machine.  The same one that is viewing the email.
> 
> If that is the case, using IMAP might be a a more complicated option.  You
> might want to change you evolution/netscape to use the local mail spool for
> your imcoming mail instead of IMAP.  IMAP is an internet protocol for
> retirving your email from a remote server kinda like POP.
> 
> From what it sounds like, you are setting up an IMAP server that will
> server you mail to your network and your local machine.  Before we try to
> solve
> you netscape or evolution (which you will love) problem, lets try to figure
> out exactly what you want to do.   i.e. IMAP server.  Most likely
> your error is in you IMAP server setup.
> 
> greg
> 
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:22:00AM -0400, Patrick Parks wrote:
> > Ok, here it goes. I am not sure if any of this is correct, so here it
> > goes. I can get my mail from a command prompt by typing mail. In the
> > e-mail program I have this set up: IMAPv4 for server type, host: mail
> > username: my username I have outgoing setup to use sendmail. Thats it. I
> > just read a document on RH website sying I needed IMAP, so I downloaded
> > it and installed it. Is there something else I need to set up? Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 18 Aug 2001 23:57:00 -0500, Allen Flick wrote:
> >
> > > Patrick Parks wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all, I am having a bit of a problem getting my local mail to work
> > > with something like Netscape or Ximian Evolution. I have
> > > > a applet setup to tell me if I get local mail, and it is working fine.
> > > but when I try to look at the mail through a mail reader, it
> > > > tells me it can not find the inbox. I have never set this up before
> > > and am assuming I have everything correct. Anyone out
> > > > there want to take a shot at this one? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > I might be able to help with the Netscape side. Tell what *ALL* you've
> > > set up
> > > within the preferences and anything else.
> > >
> >
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