On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:12:38AM +0100, michael wrote: > I've no user 'mbane' on the machine (ratty) so how can I unfreeze these > messages and work out where they're coming from?
"Freezing" a message only prevents additional delivery attempts from being made until a relatively long time (I think a day, but I'm not sure) has passed. If you're not going to do anything to make mail to user mbane deliverable, there's no need (or reason) to unfreeze them. To examine their content, use `locate` to find the files with one of the message IDs. There should be two files whose names are the message ID, one with a -H (headers) suffix and one with a -D (data; the message body) suffix. They're plain text, even for frozen messages, so you should be able to examine those for whatever information you need to determine the source. Personally, though, I tend to assume that messages to nonexistent users are spam and ignore them. -- News aggregation meets world domination. Can you see the fnews? http://seethefnews.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
