Christian Haugan Toldnes wrote: > (Jun 15 2005 00:48) Christopher Thorjussen wrote: >>Hi, >> >>For my root user on one of my tsl boxes I has a mbox file (5,8MB), a >>Maildir/ folder (2K) and a Mail/ folder (empty). Why this caos? I have >>never changed anything in postfix or other system settings in regards >>to mail on this system. > > Maildir is the official mailbox for all users. > mbox is the place mail gets moved after reading with mutt. > Mail is not known to me at last.
When I start mutt on another tsl system (2.2) I am asked if mutt should create a Mail/ folder. I said no.. > >>It is running tsl-2.2, but it was installed with tsl-2.1 and then some >>time ago upgraded to tsl-2.2 with swup. >> >>If I run 'mail' I get: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# mail >>/root/Maildir/: Is a directory > > The mail command does not cope with the fact that the mailbox (Maildir) > is uses the maildir structure, and not the old mailbox format. It does, > however, know where to look for mail. Ok. I probably want to use mutt anyway to read root local mails. > >>'mutt' opens a empty mutt screen, but shows this at the bottom: >>---Mutt: ~/Maildir/ [Msgs:0] > > > Mutt checks the Maildir, and finds no messages. Have you tried to send a > test mail to root? Yes I've tried. Maildir never gets populated with mail. mutt is empty. > > Also, you might have enabled forwarding of root mail to another account. > Take a look in /etc/postfix/aliases to check that out. From /etc/postfix/aliases: # Person who should get root's mail. Don't receive mail as root! #root: you Would this stop root from recieving mail? > > >>It looks like the local (mail/mutt) mailclients knows it should use >>/Maildir/, but it looks like the system delivers to mbox. Postfix is >>only running on local host (standard config from install). All mails >>in mbox is system messages from crontab etc.. > > > I'm pretty sure the system still delivers to Maildir, it should. > > >>What should I check/do to get the mails delivered to /Maildir/ ? >>And what is the /Mail/ folder doing there? > > > echo "this is a test" | mail -s "This is a test" root I did this on another tsl-2.2 I have access to right now, and root did not get mail. from /var/log/mail/info I see: Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/pickup[21598]: 733787C11: uid=0 from=<root> Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/cleanup[22773]: 733787C11: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/qmgr[561]: 733787C11: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=322, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/cleanup[22773]: 80E747C10: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/local[22774]: 733787C11: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (forwarded as 80E747C10) Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/qmgr[561]: 80E747C10: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=455, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 15 18:50:37 naboo postfix/qmgr[561]: 733787C11: removed To me it looks like it is delivered... mutt is empty. Testing on a fresh installed TSL-2.2 system. When I start mutt here, I am asked if I want to create Mail/. When I read the mails (from swup to root) and quit mutt, I'm asked if i want to move read emails to mbox. So all three folders/files are connected on tsl-2.2 somehow. If I answer NO to both questions, my old mail remains in Maildir/ (viewable in mutt next time I open mutt). But why would mutt move them to mbox? What do I need to do to read the old mails later? > kind regards > c /Christopher _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
