[Pam]

does anyone know anything about this? I have a domain set up with a server
and for some reason, when I send myself test messages - or attachments -
they get hung up in my var/spool/mail folder instead of being sent to my IE
as usual? I usually send/receive mail thru IE for all my dot coms but all of
the sudden this one domain won't send my mail thru? the guys that own the
server suggested implementing squirrel mail thru the domain, which I did -
but when I go to that - it says folders empty. Do you have to send/receive
mail ONLY thru squirrel mail for it to show up in there? (which is not what
I want btw)

any ideas why my mail is getting hung up in the mail folder on the dot com?
Not getting any answers from my 'tech' server guys!

thanks!
Pam

[N. Miller]

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:40:29 GMT, Pam wrote:

> does anyone know anything about this? I have a domain set up with a server
> and for some reason, when I send myself test messages - or attachments -
> they get hung up in my var/spool/mail folder instead of being sent to my IE
> as usual?

I don't know how to send email to "IE". I do know how to pull email from
either a POP3 server, or an IMAP server, using MS Outlook Express, or "OE".

Is var/spool/mail a mailbox, or a mail queue? If the latter, how does it
get delivered to the mailbox. If it is a mailbox, what is the server name
you need to use to access it, and is it accessed by POP3, or by IMAP?

> I usually send/receive mail thru IE for all my dot coms but all of
> the sudden this one domain won't send my mail thru?

I really doubt that you send email through IE; more likely you receive
email through OE. If I am wrong, enlighten me.

> the guys that own the
> server suggested implementing squirrel mail thru the domain, which I did -
> but when I go to that - it says folders empty. Do you have to send/receive
> mail ONLY thru squirrel mail for it to show up in there? (which is not what
> I want btw)

I don't know anything about Squirrelmail, other than what I found in a
Google search. Some kind of webmail program. You still have to get the mail
from that var/spool/mail location.

> any ideas why my mail is getting hung up in the mail folder on the dot com?
> Not getting any answers from my 'tech' server guys!
>
> thanks!
> Pam

IE is Internet Explorer. Var/spool/mail is a location on a Unix, or a Linux
OS. Squirrelmail appears to be a webmail application of some kind. This
group is about MS Outlook Express, a mail client which accesses SMTP, POP3,
IMAP, and/or HTTPMail servers. I think you will not find much expertise in
this group for your problem.

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