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Adding a user, /var/spool/mail and Outlook - am I right?

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stla

IS-IT--Management
Mar 12, 2003
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DE
01. I have noticed that each user has a file located in:

/var/spool/mail/

Is this file created by the function 'adduser' or is it because on a client machine I set up in Outlook an IMAP email account and this is effectively the INBOX?

02. It seems that some of the users' INBOXes are corrupt; by that I mean although they only have a few mails, the MB size of the /var/spool/mail/file is enormous.

My workaround was to mv the file to a new name after archiving in Outlook any mails then let Outlook recreate the INBOX file - this worked fine. Was my approach correct?

03. In Outlook, is it possible to move say an archived mail and make it part of the INBOX again; at the moment it resusing to allow me to append?

Best regards
 
For 01:
has nothing to do with msOutlook.
pop3 and imap clients will see the files here and incorporate them into an INBOX
 
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