Question about mail server

Hello,

What can be possible reasons for which a mail client (Outlook Express)
does not retrieve mail from the Linux mail server ?

I created a user account "mtwain" on a mail server. Any mail sent to this
account gets appended to /var/spool/mail/mtwain which means messages
correctly enter mtwain's mailbox (on the server).

However, outlook express is not able to retrieve mails from
/var/spool/mail of the linux server. All it displays are "no new messages"
each time even though the account on Outlook express has been set to POP3
and mtwain and /var/spool/mail/mtwain still has messages in it.

/var/spool/mail of the mail server resides on an NFS server which is
correctly mounted as one can view the contents of /var/spool/mail from the
email server.

This problem is for any new user account only. And there are no problems
for mtwain to send mail as well.


Thanks,
Tony



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