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  From: nick morrison <nickm@lynx.net.au>
  To  : Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:25:37 +1030

RE: /var/spool/mail

> From: Benjamin Close [mailto:linux@senet.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 5 March 1999 6:38
> To: nick morrison
> Cc: David Newall; Wong Jen Choong, Jimmy; Linux SA
> Subject: RE: /var/spool/mail
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, nick morrison wrote:
>
> > Hello all :)
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the main problem isn't
> that the mail
> > isn't deleted from /var/spool/mail, but that the POP client is told
> > there's -no- waiting mail.
>
> fetchmail can be made to collect ALL mail using the -a switch. I use this
> a lot. I read mail at uni and often don't want messages deleted. So I just
> leave them and use fetchmail -a when I get home.

ok.. so you're suggesting that the mail in /var/spool/mail/??? has been read,
but not deleted.

What if all the mail in the mailbox had NEVER been read, somebody sent me a 4M
email attachment, and pop3 said 0 messages waiting.  Because that's what's
happened to me, twice.

>
>  --
>
> * Benjamin Close
> * Benjsc@senet.com.au
> * Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc
>

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