Thank you very much Sam for your prompt response On 11/9/2012 12:55 πμ, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Constantine Kousouris writes: > >> This happens ONLY for me, all the other users (and they are a lot ...) >> do not have this problem ... > > What's different for you, then? Do you have a custom maildrop recipe? > Let's see it.
My maildir contains the following # ls -al total 10646 drwx------ 2 1009 mail 8192 Sep 11 10:39 . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 65536 Sep 7 15:53 .. drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 15:27 .AOL-FBL drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 17:48 .Courier drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 262144 Sep 10 21:49 courierimapkeywords -rw-r--r-- 1 1009 uucp 87 Sep 10 15:27 courierimapsubscribed -rw-r--r-- 1 1009 uucp 1330604 Sep 10 21:40 courierimapuiddb -rw------- 1 1009 mail 12 Sep 11 10:39 .courier-postmaster drwx------ 2 1009 mail 9175040 Sep 10 21:40 cur drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 15:26 .Mail-Admin drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 15:27 .Netapp drwx------ 2 1009 mail 64 Sep 10 15:38 new drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 16:03 .Postmaster drwx------ 2 1009 mail 64 Sep 8 07:50 .Spam drwx------ 2 1009 mail 8192 Sep 11 11:56 tmp drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 16:31 .Trash The only difference of my mailbox with a coleague's mailbox is that I have some .courier-xxxx files. The problem reappeared soon after I put these .courier files in my new (created from scratch) mailbox that I created for testing. I am not sure though if it would reappear anyway even without the .courier files ... I removed the .courier files but the problem remains ... > >> What exactly "deliver: Is a directory" mean ...??? > > "deliver" handles mail delivery. If it starts a child process that > complains about something on standard error, it gets logged, and deliver > gets blamed for it. > It would help if the name of the directory was also logged ... >> It is supposed to be a directory after all, since it is a maildir ... > > It means that something is a directory, when it shouldn't be: > > [mrsam@octopus ~]$ mkdir ttt > [mrsam@octopus ~]$ >ttt > -bash: ttt: Is a directory > >> In addition messages are delivered alright in maildir subfolders using >> dot-courier (.courier-zzzzz) ...!!! > > Ok, then let's look at your .courier files, too. This is an example of a .courier file. # cat .courier-postmaster .Postmaster In that case delivery to .Postmaster works fine > >> I assumed that there is something peculiar in my maildir that confuses >> mail delivery, so i created a brand new maildir. At first it worked fine >> and messages were deliverd for a while but soon the problem appeared >> again. > > That suggests a mail delivery script with a race condition that > occasionally gets triggered. In my case no /etc/courier/maildroprc, no HOME/.mailfilter is used. The default delivery is executed. > >> When I switch to the old Netapp system everything works fine ... >> >> Any ideas ...??? > > It could be that your old mail system was not triggering a race > condition. Entirely plausible. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
