Grimshaw Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been running qmail at home for a couple of months now, with no
> problems what so ever.
>
> However, toward the end of last week, I had a problem with an email (my
> ISP's newsletter!!) that didn't have cr's followed by lf's or whatever.
> Anyway, to cut a story short, I ended up upgrading to the latest version
> of fetchmail, and adding the "forcecr" option to it.
>
> That is the only thing that has changed, followed by a reboot because I
> hit the wrong power switch (don't ask). Since qmail was back up and
> running the mail has started to be delivered to ~/Mailbox instead of
> ~/mbox so my pop3 deamon (the one that comes with RH6.0) wasn't
> recognising there was any new mail.
Someone or some program changed your ~/.qmail and probably a few other
things...
man dot-qmail
> To solve the problem I did "ln -s Mailbox mbox" and while it works, I
> have a feeling this is bad. Can someone explain how I get pop3d to use
> Mailbox or get qmail to deliver mail to mbox instead.
Names like ``mbox'' or ``Mailbox'' are confusing since they imply
UNIX-mbox format which is entirely different from qmail's maildir
format. However, your installation must always have used maildir
format otherwise your symlink would not have worked. Also,
qmail-pop3d works _only_ with maildirs.
You could just do
rm mbox; mv Mailbox mbox
then edit your ~/.qmail so mail goes to the ``mbox'' maildir
as before. Then qmail-pop3d should also find your mail again.
You may have to do the same for other users.
> My system (for me and the misses at home) works like this. I have a
> RH6.0 box, ....
I am sure Redhat have their own mailing list for Redhat issues.
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Manfred Bartz
