> ...
> Quick question that I'm sure is simple.
> ...
I'm sure too.
> ...
> qmail is running, and my MTUs work fine.
> ...
Ok fine, so there is no problem with qmail in the first place.
> ...
> Unfortunately, when I and my users
> log in, the login message is "No mail."
> But that's not true. I can elm to my mailbox and there is mail! There can be
> new mail too!
>
> But that login message mocks me:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^\
That's the key where to find your answer.
>
> "No mail."
> "No mail."
> "No mail."
> ...
Ok, so there is still no problem with qmail.
Most probably it is your shell, that says "No mail.", because it
doesn't find any mail when it by default checks for mail douring
login.
Well, and that is most probably, because the shell doesn't know where
your mail is stored.
> ...
> Any thoughts? I'm still using the Mailbox format until I get things
> straightened out.
> ...
Give your shell a hint where to find the Mailbox like:
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/user; export MAILDIR or
export MAIL=my_mail_folder
and it will stop lying at you and your users.
>>> ...
>>> As you can see its written there: QMAIL_DIR is for Qmail. Maybe Qmail is not
>>> qmail?
>>> ...
Remember: it is not qmail, "who" is lying at you, so any change in
QMAIL_XXX won't help.
>> Is MyMail/incoming a maildir folder (do you have cur, tmp and new in
>> MyMail/incoming/) ?
> Yes! And I'm currently using this folder to receive mail and it works.
>> Did you mount the partition with noatime and/or nodiratime on Linux ?
> The partition is mounted defaults,usrquota. So the answer is no, as much as I
> know about defaults and usrquota.
> ...
I think none of these things matter. So if not your shell says "No mail",
find out which program does and help it, telling it where to find the mail.
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