On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 Devin Rubia wrote:-
[snip]
Sam wrote the program so he is in a position to know. Also, can you
give us the output of:
ls -ld /home/john/Maildir
ls -l /home/john/Maildir
ls -l /home/john/Maildir/debian
etc? That way we can see if the permissions on your directories are
set up correctly and if the maildirs are properly created.
Output follows:-
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john@relay:~$ ls -ld /home/john/Maildir
drwxr-xr-x 11 john john 4096 Feb 28 12:22 /home/john/Maildir
[SNIP]
Odd. The permissions look OK. Based on the error you reported:
"Unable to open mailbox."
it looks like maildrop is trying to open a mbox file. Perhaps maildrop
is unable to find the maildirs you have created and is trying to create
a mbox to deliver to but is failing (a quick parse of maildrop/deliver.C
seems to suggest this). Let's try this:
if (/^To:.*debian-user@lists\.debian\.org$/)
{
to "$DEFAULT/debian"
}
As you have already defined $DEFAULT in your .mailfilter file.
That did not make any difference, so I decided to start afresh,
which explains the delay in replying.
I tried to follow the steps I took in the first attempt
carefully following the literature (to the extent I could
understand it!!). This time getmail delivers to maildrop
but maildrop puts all mail into /var/mail/user and I don't
understand why. Permissions and ownerships seem the same as
previously but the action is different.
I've tried altering /etc/login.defs and /etc/pam.d/login
and /etc/pam.d/ssh#, but that doesn't help. Something now
seems to be stopping maildrop looking in /etc/maildroprc
and /home/john/.mailfilter thus causing it to default to
/var/mail/user. I can find a lot of info on using getmail
with procmail and qmail but nothing detailed on using it
with maildrop (other than when employing domain boxes).
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Global maildrop filter file
# Uncomment this line to make maildrop default to ~/Maildir for
# delivery- this is where courier-imap (amongst others) will look.
DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Feb 16 2002 /etc/maildroprc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 159760 Feb 19 2002 /usr/bin/maildrop
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Any suggestions on what else to try? I'm now convinced that I've
made some stupid fundamental error.
John.
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