RE: [cobalt-users] email "stuck in the qube 3"

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> le 16.8.2001 14:57, Fran Sousa à fsousa@xxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
>
> > We have email for some users, where the mail is just "stuck on
> the cobalt
> > cube 3".  After we delete the user and recreate it, the mail seems to
> > process just fine.    The downside here is that all of the
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On Wednesday 22.08.2001 James Bond [jamesbond@xxxxxxxxxxx] added:

> If you have any telnet experience, just telnet/SSH into your box
> and move into the /var/spool/mail directory.
> If you make an ls -l of that directory you'll probably see that
> the file of
> the customer is probably a bit bigger then the others.
>
> If this is the case just use the following command:
>
> mail -f mail_file
> you'll get a listing of all the mails in the mailbox including their
> respective sizes. Find the one that is to big and look at it's number,
> then just edit
> d "number"
> and the mail will be deleted.
> finally quite this program by hitting q
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What you advocate is OK for the user's inbox, and perhaps this is what
Francine was asking. Upon reflection I don't know. What I posted a couple of
days ago related to my supposition that mail was getting stuck in the
*queue*.
Francine if you are still reading list traffic, please tell us if you mean
mail was getting stuck in the user's mail spool or in the Qube mailqueue.
That would help us understand what the problem is.
However, what we have here is 2 "howto's" for mail getting jammed in either
place.
Carrie if you're reading this I'll condense these two answers into one
cohesive document and send it to you for possible inclusion in that really
groovy knowledgebase you're building.
James, thanks for this howto which is a valued addition the collective list
knowledge. I must admit I didn't know anything about the -f switch on "mail"
<chuckle> I haven't used "mail" in years.
Groetjes,
-Colin.
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Colin J. Raven