> On 07-05, Peter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using slack 10.1, kernel 2.4.29, sendmail-8.13.3 and getmail 4.2.5 and > > all the mail has the From: ,however, none has From_ . In fact I have never
> > seen that. On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:53:08 -0400 Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings again Peter and thanks much for the input.. > > I have additional suggestions from Ray that I'll respond to > but since you're using a similar lash up I have some more queries for > you if OK: > > Of course the Unix From_, as the first string in every > message, has been around for more than the 15 years I've been running > Unix.. It is the way the messages are kept separate in the one file > that contains all of them; heretofore, usually, > /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN.. That was my first head thumper; the change > to the first string being From:... > > What mailer, MUA, are you using?? I use either Mutt or MailX, > now called 'Nail' for some reason, but still invoked with the symlink > 'mail'... During all this I tried Pine with the same problem so I > removed it.. > > Where do your "From:" messages go? In /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN > or to another directory/folder in userspace?? As I understand it; > QMail type mail stores each message individually rather than in one, > could be large, file at /var/spool/mail.... > > My original problem came to light on the machine that didn't > have any version of Sendmail installed because, IIRC, Getmail doesn't > need Sendmail or Procmail to deliver messages, like Fetchmail, etc.. > > One final query: Can you invoke: env <return> in any of your > userspace or even root and tell me what the variable $MAIL reports? > For years the "normal" has always been /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME.. > Will be interesting to see what your working box reports.. MAIL=/var/mail/heisspf Sorry not to have mentioned all my setup. I am using procmail to filter my mail and for MUA I use mainly exmh, then mail>nail and occasionally like now sylpheed-claw. Exmh and sylpheed compliment each other both using nmh. Therefore no mail ever enters /var/mail/heisspf instead goes straight to various mail boxes and for spam to> /dev/null. Since I used Pine only briefly in the beginning with Linux and then quickly switched to exmh with procmail I do not remember having seen From_. Thanks for pointing out to me that my mail now comes from meridian.ph. This is the provider for my broadband connection, however, I have no e-mail account with them, therefore, the mail will bounce. I was not aware of this problem. Will see how to sort this out. > We'll keep hacking away as the learning abounds.. Thanks. Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
