Re: [cobalt-users] procmail problem--fixed.

["Murtuza Topiwala" <thesimspsonfan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.
i have found the solution to the problem and i just thought i'd share it
with everyone...
all you have to do is tyoe /var/spool/mail/
and remove the user you are having problems with.
so far, this works without any problems.
please be careful not to remove the WHOLE DIRECTORY

good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Murtuza Topiwala" <thesimspsonfan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] procmail problem


> Hello people again,
>  i tried out the following :
> ls -l /var/spool/mail/xyz
>
> and this is the reply i got :
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 xyz  site8          43 Dec 21 21:27 /var/spool/mail/xyz -
> > /home/sites/site23/../../spool/mail/xyz
>
> the thing is, i dont even have a site23....now how do i fix this?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SM" <nntp@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] procmail problem
>
>
> > Hi,
> > At 19:19 10-02-2002 +0800, you wrote:
> > > Hello people on the list again.
> > >you see i have a site named "mysite.com" and it has 1 user named xyz.
and
> it
> > >just does not recieve any email on any alias
> > >but when i created a new user, it recieved mail perfectly.
> > >so can some of you please tell me what the problem could be and
possible
> > >solutions.
> > >thank you.
> > >  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > >procmail: Couldn't create "/home/sites/site23/../../spool/mail/xyz"
> > >procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/xyz"
> >
> > ls -l /var/spool/mail/xyz to see whether there is such a mailbox.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -sm
>
>
>
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