Hello:
We are experiencing a wierd loss of mail files. Some users check their
mail and then the entire file is deleted.
Usually, if they read and delete mail or use a POP client and download
their mail, the file exists, but it is size = 0. But in this case its just
gone. Whats more is that qmail doesn't write any mail to a new file, it
just holds it in the queue. Then when I manually make a file the mail is
delivererd. The manually made file looks like this:
-rw-rw---- 1 amach mail 5629 Jan 4 11:45 amach
I was thinking it may have to do with permissions, but I'm not finding
(or understanding :) a correlation with the perms on folks home
directories either...
drwx--x--x 6 amach faculty 4096 Jan 4 09:58 /acct/faculty/amach/
drwx--x--x 23 helena student 4096 Jan 3 09:52 /acct/student/helena/
drwxr-xr-x 4 cdenton student 4096 Jan 4 11:35 /acct/student/cdenton/
drwx------ 3 lawson faculty 4096 Jan 1 00:19 /acct/faculty/lawson/
drwx------ 3 bronwen student 4096 Jan 3 20:21 /acct/student/bronwen/
I am trying to see if it is related to the client they are using (most are
BSD) but still that doesn't explain (to me) why mail would be delted or
why qmail wouldn't deliver...
Please help :)
TIA,
Samuel Daffner
Mills College ITS
