IIRC, this is Procmail's handiwork. I think if Procmail has a problem delivering into a user's mailbox (permissions, ownership, etc), it renames /var/mail/USER to /var/mail/BOGUS.USER, then creates a new (properly owned/permed) mailbox to deliver into. So those BOGUS.* probably have real mail in them that needs to be delivered. Ultimately you'll want to find out what's causing this - I think it gets logged to maillog or procmail's own log (if configured). Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Brian wrote: > I'm running a sendmail server, and every once in awhile I end up with > files that look like: > > BOGUS.validusername.xom > > in /var/spool/mail. Not every user has one, but many users have both > thier own mailbox and one of these BOGUS. boxes. cat'ing through them > shows them to be valid mboxes. Any idea what that is? > > -Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list