No maildir log file??

[David Bouw]

Hi everyone..   I noticed the following which I don't understand..   I have a habit of sometime making an file empty by doing: echo "" >file_to_empty.ext (Writing an empty datastring to it..)   I do this with LOG files and also did it once or twice with an Mailbox file.. The reason for this is that I don't want to delete these files for programs that look for this (log) file..   I also did this with the Qmail log file, I now notice that this file doesn't grow anymore (e.g. nothing is written to this log file anymore..)   With the Mailbox files if I try to fetch my mail I get an error telling me that the password is incorrect.. After deleting the Mailbox file (chown owner.groep doesn't help) and letting qmail recreate it, it works like it should..   Why is this? (Probably security, and how does Qmail know that the owner didn't create the file? I did a chown to give the right group/ownership to the file..)   But the most important, how can I get Qmail logging again to my maildir file?? I deleted it, but he also doesn't recreate it any more..? :-(   Thanks in advance for suggestions..   Bye Bye David Bouw