Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ 4i- Mailbox problem

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

<snip>
> Someone sent a huge file to the mailbox. The DSL connection has problems
> tonight, too, so a browser mail program download was painfully slow. I
> stopped it, enabled telnet momentarily, and then used Pine to delete the
> large file. After that, the mailbox won't open. Instead, I get these
> messages:
>
> 1) From Netscape Mail:
>
> the mail server responded:
> (SYS/PERM) Unable to process From lines (envelopes) in
> /var/spool/mail/domain-name;
>
> 2) PINE tells me:
>
> Can't open inbox file:/var/spool/mail/domain-name not in valid mailbox
> format
>
<snip>
Sorry for those last bogus post!!!
Do you have a file in /home/spool/mail for the user?
If not you can create one.
touch /home/spool/mail/user_name
chmod 600 /home/spool/mail/user_name

Also try sending the user an email from the server, so that the box is not empty
and or will be created. (of course the above should do that)
You might also try restarting smtp /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

Gerald