FreeBsd e-mail question

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Wed Oct 3 14:05:02 PDT 2007


On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:30:54 Lisa Casey wrote:

> If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
> ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
>
> -rw-rw----   1 1473             mail                     0 Sep 11 19:15
> .jjvc.pop
>
> Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
> that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?

rmuser is a shell script. There's 2 ways to solve this problem:
1) edit the rm_mail function in /usr/sbin/rmuser to use:
   ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop
2) Better option is to change the default temp-name in qpopper.config:
   set temp-name "%s.pop"
   so that rmuser will detect it automatically.

-- 
Mel


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