On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:40, Jeff Jansen wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 08:44, Thomas wrote: > > For the home and mail directories I use the same > > entries "/home/mailboxes/mydomain.xx/user. In each user's account I ran > > "maildirmake Maildir" and changed the ownership of the entire mailbox/* > > tree to daemon:daemon > > I think this might be your problem. If you set "mail" and "home" to be > "/home/mailboxes/mydomain.xx/user" then courier expects the "user" directory > to be a maildir where it can deliver mail. But it's not a maildir. The > maildir you created is called Maildir and is inside the HOME directory. > Either change the "mail" attribute to be > "/home/mailboxes/mydomain.xx/user/Maildir" or remove it completely if you are > using maildrop. Then rerun makeuserdb and see if it works. > > FYI, the "mail" attribute over-rides other delivery instructions so it will > over-ride any maildrop filtering that you try and do. So if you are using > maildrop then remove the "mail" attribute and just leave the "home" as it > was. You also might want to make sure that the file "maildirfilterconfig" > exits in the courier 'etc' directory and has > > MAILDIRFILTER=../.mailfilter > MAILDIR=./Maildir > > in it. These might be the default values and so you don't need them but it > doesn't hurt. This will make sure that maildrop knows that the maildir is > called "Maildir" and is in the HOME directory. > > Jeff Jansen > Jeff,
Thanks for this - your explanation does make things a bit clearer. I'll give it a shot and will let you know the outcome. Could this be why the POP accounts steadfastly give me a LOGIN FAILED? even when I am deadsure that I have the correct password? Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
