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Re: deactivating of /var/mail/$USER ?

2005-11-10 05:41:29
Hi,

Am 2005-11-07 16:58:01, schrieb Professional Software Engineering:
At 19:28 2005-11-07 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
I am runing fetchmail + procmail + courier-imap and sometimes
I have unknown errors and $USER messages are going into
/var/mail/$USER which is inaccessibel to $USER.

I like to see an option, to disable this feature (!!!) and
return an error instead so fetchmail leave the message on the
server.

Is this possibel ?

I have more then 17.000 $USER on the Server

You have this many users and you're using fetchmail in place of a normal 
MTA arrangement?  The chief reasons to use fetchmail are running a home 

No, I am using courier-mta and fetchmail in addition  ;-)  to let
$USER fetch ther messages from other ISP's and read it on ONE box
via courier-imap.

I seem to recall you were operating over a dialup connection or 
somesuch.  How on earth can you expect to support so many users and not 
have a fulltime connection?

Now I have a SDSL (3,8MBit bidirectional) at <http://www.nerim.fr/>
and 8 fixed IP's,  :-)  ...but other problems with my appartement!

Erh, if the messages end up in /var/mail/$USER, why not have a cron-invoked 
script (running from root, or the mail user) redeliver them to the 
appropriate imap folder?

Hmmm, it will be a workaround...

Greetings
Michelle

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