On Sat Nov 11, 2000 at 02:41:37PM -0500, Lison wrote:
> Yes postfix delivers to /var/spool/mail/user and imap moves it to
> /home/user/mbox:
>
> See:
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> **********************
> H The home_mailbox parameter specifies the optional pathname of a
> H mailbox file relative to a user's home directory. The default
> H mailbox file is /var/spool/mail/user or /var/mail/user.....
Ok. so postfix delivers to the spool. That's fine. I have no idea
how to make postfix deliver to /home/user/mbox (I use qmail), so I'd
leave that alone unless you know how.
> /usr/doc/imap/FAQ:
> ******************
> A: This is probably caused by the mbox driver. If the file "mbox" exists on
> the user's home directory and is in UNIX mailbox format, then when INBOX
> is opened this file will be selected as INBOX instead of the mail spool
> file. Messages will be automatically transferred from the mail spool file
> into the mbox file.
Ok. so the solution is simple. Remove /home/user/mbox and tell pine
or your email client to access /var/spool/mail/user directly. Try
that and see what happens.
> regarding the symlink /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/mbox:
> I got an errormessage in the maillog: procmail: Renmamed bogus
> "/var/spool/mail/user" into /var/spool/mail/BOGUS.user.VgM. So that doesn't work
> either.
Ok, so it doesn't like the symlink. I'd say remove /home/user/mbox
completely. According to the FAQ snippet you posted, it will use the
spool mbox if it doesn't find one in the user's home directory, so
make sure it doesn't find one.
Give that a try and see what happens.
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