But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail to /var/spool/mail/user. If Anne is downloading her mail directly via POP, /var/spool/mail/anne will never be used.I have a dovecot IMAP server. Procmail sorts the mail into directories on my server. The only use I would expect in /var/spool/mail is if the system needs to send a message - and that normally would be to root. Of course root is aliased to one of my mail accounts.
Hi Anne,So, if you use imap locally, as it sounds like you do, then Thunderbird has no place in even trying to touch /var/spool/mail/anne . In this case, if /var/spool/mail/anne is seperate from your regular mail account, I think you may want to tell dovecot about it so it can serve it over imap to thunderbird. Having postfix, dovecot, and thunderbird all trying to access /var/spool/mail/anne and even attempting locks on it might give all sort of issues.
Remmy
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