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On Sun October 30 2005 15:48, Robert Samuel White wrote:
> Hello, thanks for your reply.  I managed to get past all of that. 
> Everything is installed now and appears to at least be running, but it's
> not working right.
>
> I'm running Red Hat Linux - I'm not sure what version, I think EL3 or maybe
> 9.
>
> Now, it is accepting email but none of it is going into the mailboxes - it
> reports it cannot open the mailbox.  

Have you created maildirs for the usernames?

>And I cannot establish a connection
> from Outlook.

Likely to happen if there is no maildir...

> Is there anything specific I could send you that might help in diagnosing
> the causes?

Log file messages, for starters...

> I'm running all the lastest versions of Courier IMAP, Postfix, Cyrus SASL,
> SpamAssassin - and an older version of Maildrop (1.6.3) since it was the
> only one I could get to install.
>
> I appreciate any assistance you could offer.
>
> Here is the tail end of the maillog:
>
> Oct 30 16:16:47 serversareus postfix/qmgr[8977]: 2E5111251ED:
> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=4282, nrcpt=1
> (queue active) Oct 30 16:16:49 serversareus postfix/pipe[10747]:
> E8E661251E6: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=maildrop, delay=31730,
> status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output:
> /usr/local/courier/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox. ) 

Yep, that might be a problem...

jerry


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