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by gregberry

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Hello, we have an OpenBSD box running sendmail. I am not a Unix guy and I can't get in touch with my normal Unix guy.

I have two accounts that are having the same problem, all of the other accounts are fine. The common denominator with these accounts is that the same e-mail was sent to both accounts. The e-mail is art work. My guess, becuase we had a similiar problem not to long ago, is that the e-mail is too big for any of our e-mail clients to download. We are getting a bad password error on the clients, however after changing the password on the server, it does not help. What I need to know is how to login and delete this particular message from both accounts, if possible, without deleting and recreating the users.

Also, I would like to know how to setup an alias so that when someone e-mails a user with more than 8 characters (khogeboom@company.com) it redirects to the khogeboo (8 character) account on the server. We currently have this setup on several accounts. It would be good to know in case I need to create or recreate an account.

I am also looking for an another independent Unix Consultant, if you are interested please e-mail me your resume (gregberry@it-ci.com)

Thanks.

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by cactus pete

I'm more familiar with linux and solaris than BSD, so I'm stabbing a little...

The mail may be in /var/mail. The file with the same name as the account to which the message was sent is what you're looking for. I've never tried deleting this or even editing it, but it seems likely that either can be done without hurting anything.

in /etc/mail you might try looking at the virtusertable and alias files. You can use these to redirect messages to various accounts and groups.

For specifics on how to use these features, you should look at http://sendmail.org/ for your version. A good source for Linux intro help is http://linuxdocs.org [Linux and BSD are similar enough in some respects...] I'm sure there are equal resources specifically for OpenBSD.

I'd be happy to send you my credentials, but I don't live anywhere near you...

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