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From: jim@tiamat.FSC.COM (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Forwarding Mail (uucp forward file disappearing)
Summary: might be uudemon.cleanup at work
Message-ID: <233@tiamat.FSC.COM>
Date: 26 Jan 89 04:18:33 GMT
References: <494@fallst.UUCP>
Organization: Filtration Sciences Corp., Chattanooga, TN
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In article <494@fallst.UUCP>, tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
> 
> What's strange is that uucp's mailbox (containing the same forwarding
> instructions) keeps disappearing.  It'll forward the mail to me ONE DAY,
> then stop.  The next time mail is generated, it gets sent to uucp 
> (generally as output from uucp's administrative demons), it doesn't
> get forwarded.  (I'm running the uPort-distributed HDB UUCP.)
> 
> Even stranger, the mail from the demons doesn't pile up over several
> days, as it ought to; each new day's worth appears to overwrite the
> mailbox file--and there's never more than one day's worth there.
> 
> Any ideas?  

Could be that /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean is poking around in there
some where.  Maybe even uuclean is doing it, but my man page for uuclean
doesn't mention anything about messing with uucp's mailbox.

I just checked /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean and look what I found:

#	Dispose of mail to uucp and nuucp
#
rm -f $MAILDIR/uucp $MAILDIR/nuucp $TMP

If your uudemon.clean is running daily from root's crontab, then 
$MAILDIR/uucp is going to disappear no matter what.  If your using the
mail file to do forwarding, then it should be safe to comment out that
last line.

--jim
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James B. O'Connor			jim@FSC.COM
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651