[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ld /var/spool/mail{,/jrm}
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jul 13 09:41 /var/spool/mail
-rw-rw---- 1 jrm mail 1 Jul 13 09:41 /var/spool/mail/jrm
Regarding other mailboxes, yes there are others and -- interestingly --
ones that have never had mail will allow a login via telnet, ones that
have had mail cause failures.
I created a new user -- testuser (not very original this morning) and
presto there is the mailbox in /var/spool/mail. I send mail to this box
from outside, and it appears there, and I can telnet into the account
and do a LIST. I then created a T-bird account to get to it, and it can
do so, download it, and it deletes the mail from the server and LIST
shows nothing.
Therefore, I believe that the mailboxes that exist on the server are
somehow damaged and I should just recreate them, or let Postfix do it
when they get mail. This is a backup mail server for us, so nothing will
be lost if I just delete the mail files.
Solar Designer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:54:45AM -0500, James R. Mirick wrote:
(Sorry about the HTML, I assume this is now plain text?)
Yes, it is - thank you!
The mailbox size was only 150K, I reduced it to zero (just deleted the
contents via the mail server's console) and it still fails.
OK, let's proceed further. Can you please post the output of -
ls -ld /var/spool/mail{,/jrm}
to this mailing list such that we can see whether the permissions on the
directory and the file are correct?
Do you have other mailboxes on this server? If so, are you able to
access them via popa3d?
