Re: [cobalt-users] Mail queue reporting problems

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> I'm sure Jeff will know the answer to this... I hope anyway  :)

Grumble

> My mother gets TONS of mail per day. She's on mailing lists where they
send
> through .bmp's and .jpg's of scanned craft patterns.
> She's been getting 2 and 3 copies of her mail, and my GUI keeps telling me
> that she's near or at quota (she's got a 40 meg user's partition for this
> stuff) even though she's checking her mail every 5 minutes non-stop 24/7.
> (Constant cable connection.)
>
> I just went into the GUI and it said she was using 23MB of her space. (She
> has *no* html files in her users directory, it's just mail.)
> However, Outlook Express was telling her she had 13.3MB of new mail. I let
> that finish downloading, then:  (using notes from Jeff found in archives)
>
> went to /var/spool/mail
> removed her mail file  (hoping that it would remake itself when she got
new
> mail)
> rm slinn
>
> I sent her a test message, plain text.
> In telnet it remade the file and reported the size as 1079. Outlook
express
> said it was 1.05k. Close enough, I suppose.
> She downloads the message. Now she should have nothing in her pop box.
>
> I refresh the telnet screen, and now it says her mail file is 3674. The
GUI
> says she's now using 13.7MB. Outlook Express says there's no mail to
> download.
>
> I found another message in archives saying I could:
> shell#> /var/spool/mail/slinn
> and that would overwrite her mail file with a blank.
>
> I thought that deleting and letting the system re-create would do this,
> though. Should I try this method?
>
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
> PS - her mail is *not* set to 'leave mail on server'.
>
> Carrie Bartkowiak

Carrie,

       I have my mom setup to use an Imap account and she gets to make all
the folders she wants and can get to all of them no matter where in the
world she is.  she likes it?  Anyways it makes lots of files.  So to check
out my moms mail files I have to do this.... (on a Raq2)

cd /home/sites/home/users/username
ls -la
see something like
-rw-r--r--   1 username   home           29 Jul 20 16:13 .mailboxlist
-rw-------   1 username  home          511 Jun 18 14:30 Drafts
-rw-------   1 username   home        13018 Aug  8 16:31 Zeffie
-rw-------   1 username   home        14908 Aug  8 16:32 Sent Items

Then to see how her inbox is doing I
cd /var/spool/mail
ls -la    or ls -la username
see
-rw-------   1 username   home        11419 Aug  8 16:32 username

Now on the Raq 3 you have to
cd /home/sites/siteX/users/username/mail
and ls -la
to see something like
-rw-------   1 username     users         515 Aug 15 07:04 saved-messages
-rw-------   1 username     users        1627 Sep  2 20:21 sent-mail

Anyways add em up and and they should give you a better idea what mom is up
to...  Oh and don't forget to compress those folders in outlook......

HTH

Zeffie