Re: [SLUG] regurgitated mail, was Mad Mouse under Kde on Suse 6.4

[Ken Yap <ken@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Bing - it must be fetchmail. It is run as terryc on the mailserver box,
>so I gather it must put stuff into mbox before it hands it over to the
>
>So three places to look for mail
>     /var/spool/mqueue
>     /var/spool/mail/user
>     /home/user/mbox    if you run something like fetchmail.

I always run fetchmail feeding into the local mailserver (qmail in my
case) rather than delivering to a MDA. It's recommended as more reliable
by the man page because fetchmail gets an ack that the mail has been
received before deleting it at the source. That way the maildrop is
always what your mailserver is configured to deliver to, ~/Mailbox or
~/Maildir in the case of qmail.