Use the /etc/aliases file

[Anonymous]

I struggled with this myself. If you rename the spool fine in /var/mail to whatever the primary shortname is, it works just fine. (just that once)

I found that the spool file will be created as whatever the mail was sent to. So if a user has a short name of “uname” and “user” and mail is sent to “[email protected]” the spool will be “user” and AMS will not pick it up. (assuming primary short name is “uname”). If you log into POP as “user” it allows the POP login and but recordeds in the log as the primary shortname! (again in this case “uname”)

If you set the /etc/aliases to have an entry of “user: uname” , the spool file will correctly be named uname. And, no matter what you log into POP with, it will fetch your mail just fine.

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