are there .qmail files in the homedirs ????
marco leeflang
Subba Rao wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to access my mailbox on one of my Linux systems. I had installed
> Qmail on it and later decided to move back to Sendmail. At first, all qmail
> related material was deleted and later I went as far as reinstalling Linux.
> The /home is on a different partition so the user data was secure. I use
> ELM and MUTT. I have removed all references to Qmail from /home/users
> directories.
>
> I can't access any mail for the local user. The mailbox seems to get it,
> but when I use mail, elm or mutt, it system seems to be looking in ~/Maildir,
> which is a Qmail scheme of the mailbox. Please keep in mind this is a new
> installation.
>
> ================= System where Qmail was deleted ======================
>
> ---Mutt: (no mailbox) [Msgs:0]---(date/date)----------------------(all)---
> /root/Maildir: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
>
> Mailbox is '~/Maildir' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL25]
>
> ===================================================================
>
> This is a different system which is running sendmail. Qmail was not installed
> on this system. The output from MUTT and ELM go the /var/spool/mail/user.
>
> ================= Differenet System with Sendmail =====================
>
> ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/root [Msgs:0]---(date/date)--------------(all)---
>
> Mailbox is '/var/spool/mail/root' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL25]
>
> ==================================================================
>
> Does anyone have an idea, why my 1st system is going back to ~/Maildir?
> Any help is appreciated. I want to be able to read my local mail.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Subba Rao
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