[mew-int 01693] Re: spam again ( sorry )

[Francesco Scaglioni]

> 
> Would you try the following commands on a command shell?
> 
> ----
> $ cd ~/Mail/inbox
> $ pwd
> /home/tats/Mail/inbox
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> $ ls -l /var/mail/tats
> -rw-r--r--    1 tats     tats         6396 Dec  5 00:09 /var/mail/tats
> $ which incm
> /usr/bin/incm
> $ incm -d /var/mail/tats
> 1
> 2
> $ ls -l /var/mail/tats
> -rw-r--r--    1 tats     tats            0 Dec  5 00:10 /var/mail/tats
> $ ls -l
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--    1 tats     tats         3236 Dec  5 00:10 1
> -rw-r--r--    1 tats     tats         3055 Dec  5 00:10 2
> ----
> 
> The incm command should display the numbers of retrieved messages.
> 


incm -d /var/spool/mail/fgs

returns no count even when there are messages in
/var/spool/mail/fgs  but it does empty the file.  Running an strace
on the command shows a line regarding /dev/null which is where I
suspect that the messages are going ;-{

F