Topic: Blank Email...

[Joe Wendt]

I keep getting an e-mail message about every 20 minutes with no headers whatsoever and no body either... very strange.  I've reset the server and that didn't stop it.  Since there are no headers I can only guess that it's coming from the server itself.  Has anybody ever heard of this and if so, what can I do about it?

[Gordon Rowell]

Joe Wendt wrote:

> I keep getting an e-mail message about every 20 minutes with no
> headers whatsoever and no body either... very strange.  I've
> reset the server and that didn't stop it.  Since there are no
> headers I can only guess that it's coming from the server
> itself.  Has anybody ever heard of this and if so, what can I
> do about it?

It must have _some_ headers - whether you can display these will
depend on your email client software.

You could watch the most recent file in /var/log/qmail to watch
mail deliveries - that will show the sender/recipient.

The other option is to stop your mail program from downloading your
mail and have a look at the files collecting in the ~user/Maildir/new -
that will show the full details of the mail.

Gordon

[Joe Wendt]

I'm using outlook express 5.  Is there an easier way to view these files?  I'm a dos head, but (I'm ashamed to admit) the unix prompt is greek to me...  Here's a dumb question, can I run X-windows on an e-smith server?