Re: port-i386/52404: Date of User mail in mail directory sometimes shows "Jan 1 1970"

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/52404; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/52404: Date of User mail in mail directory sometimes
 shows "Jan 1 1970"
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:55:24 +0000

 On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 02:25:00AM +0000, MMichael%Nareg.Com.AU@localhost wrote:
  > In mail directory ls -al shows the following:
  > -rw------ 1 USERNAME wheel  size Jan 1  1970   USERNAME
  > 
  > About 10% of the users show this invalid date "sometimes" and is
  > not specific to a USERNAME it keeps changing and ALSO while there
  > is no mail activity.
  >
  > It randomly appears different while running
  > 
  > ls -al ; sleep 15
 
 So it doesn't require a new mail to come in for the timestamp to
 change, either to 1970 or back?
 
 What filesystem is /var/mail?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost