Net connection Problem

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:10:13PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> Well, this is what happens when no one is around....  I started
> going through more books and came across the "route" command.  It
> showed my gateway as 192.168.1.254 so I added a gateway of
> 192.168.1.1 and deleted the .254 gateway and now I'm getting
> email.  Really cool.
> 
> OK, now I've got some questions - one reason for putting
> fetchmail on a different machine was it's always on so there is
> less chance of mail building up on the internet.  The other
> reason was so I could use multiple computers to read my email.
> Checking out my new /var/spool/mail directory I see my mail
> account grow when fetchmail goes out to get mail then it goes to
> zero when Pine goes and picks it up.  i have a feeling it's
> moving it to my local machine

That is correct.

> and this is going to mean I will
> not have access to my mail from other comptuers (like my
> notebook).  So, how do I set things up to allow that?

Have your local email client use IMAP instead of POP3.

> One other thing, I'm looking at my new /var/spool/mail directory
> and there is a new directory out there called "BOGUS.brad.FXsN"
> what the heck is that?

Short answer:

It was a mailbox probably not owned by brad.

Long answer, thanks to

http://www.freebsdhowtos.com/42.html

Problem - from procmail(1) doc:
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       If /var/mail/$LOGNAME is a bogus mailbox  (i.e.  does  not
       belong to the recipient, is unwritable, is a symbolic link
       or is a hard link), procmail will upon startup try to  re-
       name  it  into  a file starting with `BOGUS.$LOGNAME.' and
       ending in an inode-sequence-code.  If this turns out to be
       impossible,  ORGMAIL will have no initial value, and hence
       will inhibit delivery without a proper rcfile.
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> Thanks
> 
> Brad

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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