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Re: .qmail file causing message drop

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Subject: Re: .qmail file causing message drop
From: Charles Cazabon <qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:09:34 -0600
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Bhagwan Gupta <contactbhagwan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I noticed, if I put a hash in front of a line written
> in ~/.qmail file, I dont recieve any mail(I dont know
> where are my mails going)
> If I delete the .qmail file (or if i remove the hash)
> everything works fine.

"#" starts a comment in a .qmail file.  Read `man dot-qmail` for details.  By
creating a non-empty .qmail file containing nothing but comments, you
instructed qmail to discard your messages -- so it did.

Charles
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