Re: Local delivery problems on FreeBSD

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Author: Stephen.Degnan
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To: Chris Thompson
CC: Mark Murray, exim-users
Subject: Re: Local delivery problems on FreeBSD

I suppose it would be a disk space monster, but does anyone know of any
pop daemons that are capable of any logging?


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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Chris Thompson wrote:

> Mark Murray writes:
> >
> > > Your adduser program doesn't create new user's mailboxes automatically?
> >
> > Of course not. Many mail readers/POPservers remove mailboxes when they are
> > empty.
>
> Ah, but if it isn't publicly-writable they can't! :-)
>
> Seriously, at least some such agents use the algorithm "unlink the file if
> I can, truncate it to zero length if I can't".
>
> Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
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