G'day... Procmail is not installed.
postfix is configured to handle mail for the domain, and deliver locally. (dovecot handles imap access to the mail.) mailbox_command is not declared in /etc/postfix/main.cf and home_mailbox = Maildir/ (in main.cf) There is no mbox, mail, etc - just Maildir in the users home directory fetchmail does download the messages, but they do not appear in the appropriate users mail. dovecot and postfix are up and running. If I `telnet localhost smtp` and manually send an email to the user - it works. In the meantime, I'm now ensuring I'm using the keep option of fetchmail. (I'm running fetchmail as root, with the user there is user here method.) When I manually call fetchmail (with the keep option) - I can watch it download messages, yet they aren't delivered locally - they just seem to disappear without a trace or log. (Can't see anything in /var/log/messages that refers to fetchmail.) My ***major*** concern is that fetchmail downloaded approx. 40 messages and deleted from the server, without delivering them. (When I was silly enough to run it without the keep option, as daemon earlier.) Is it possible that postfix has these messages stored somewhere? Aah! Help! Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:05:22 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] fetchmail and Maildir format - oops!!! This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A high number of messages were downloaded, and I'm not sure where they've >been stored. /var/spool/mail/<username> seems to be an empty file. Any >clues on how to recover the downloaded mail? (If possible?) Is procmail installed? Check /home/$user/Mail or mail or Maildir. What MTA? If it's postfix, check the value of mailbox_command or home_mailbox in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Is the host configured as a destination for the mail it's getting; if not it might be being rejected (in which case the original email accounts will be getting messages from mailer-daemon) or forwarded on (in which case the original accounts will be filling up with duplicates). >Also, any clues on how this /should/ be done? fetchmail is good; other options involve grabbing the mbox from the current mail server and using formail and procmail to filter them into users mailboxes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
