On 2012-04-16, ZC) Loff <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is hard to guess what you need from the scarce information you >> provide. > > I'm sorry... On hindsight, that was _very_ little information. > I'm running 5.0, with postfix as an MTA, delivering mail for two virtual > domains (maildir). Courier is used for IMAP, and runs as vmail:vmail. > >> Can you show the output of >> # ls -al /var/mail > > $ ls -l /var/mail > total 2148 > -rw------- 1 root wheel 1076477 Jan 14 16:13 root > drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 512 Dec 5 00:33 vmail > -rw------- 1 zeloff users 0 Jan 10 2011 zeloff > > Inside /var/mail/vmail is a folder of each of the virtual domains, and > inside that one for every user, etc. Every thing from here on down has > either 700 (folders) or 600 (files) permissions.
/var/mail is intended for user-owned mbox files, I would think moving your maildirs elsewhere is more sane. I tend to use /mail for virtual user mailboxes but each to their own :) > Relocating the whole thing is most probably the best idea, but is there > anything wrong with this patch I came up with? that looks alright as a local patch but I have no idea if there's something else which might be unhappy about nonstandard use of /var/mail.
