>
> Once in a while peoples mailbox in /usr/spool/mails gets screwed up.
> It will then contain (512 or 1024?) '\0' in the beginning of the file,
> making it unuseable for my popper (the one from Qualcomm).
>
> Does anybody know if this is a kernel or a sendmail or a popper problem ?
>
We also use the Qualcomm POPmail package on our machine cluster. To date
(2.5 months since upgrading the POP package), we have not experienced a
problem with /var/spool/mail corruption. We were running under 1.2.13 at
the time of the upgrade and are currently running 1.3.57 on all nodes.
Additional info: We are using berkeley sendmail 8.6.12 with some
customization in sendmail.cf, etc.. to handle the clustering environment
plus a few aliases. Nothing too heavy though.
One diff is that our user accounts are served by NIS. And we do have
quite a bit of email and POPmail traffic with several thousand very active
accounts.
If you can send some specifics, I'll try to compare them to our setup.
Thanks,
-Jonathan _ _
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