Pieter van der Eems writes:
The person who installed and configured this server left the company
and now the administration of the server lies with me. I know my way
around (debian) linux but have very little experience with email
servers in general.
One of our clients has a strange problem. He collects his email with
outlook and for a few weeks he did get any new email. Today for the
first time he recieved new email that was dated today (2006-02-2006).
I checked the /var/mail/client mbox file and found that there was
email from the previous weeks in there. When I run mutt -f
/var/mail/client or mail /var/mail/client I can see al the emails that
he didn't recieve, but when I use a telnet session to port 110 at the
server I only get a '.' when I give either the command LIST or UIDL.
Of course, because Courier does not support mboxes, only maildirs. You
said:
We have a ubuntu (5.10) server running courier-pop 0.47-3ubuntu7 with
postfix 2.2.4-1ubuntu2 and configured with ISP-config.
Your mail server, postfix, is configured incorrectly to deliver mail to
old-fashioned mbox-files for this account, instead of $HOME/Maildir.
Furthermore:
1) Your version of the Courier POP3 server is very old. Courier 0.47 was
released in 2004.
2) Your version of the Courier POP3 server is not the standalone version of
the IMAP/POP3 server that's designed to work with any maildir-compatible
mail server, such as Postfix, but the version designed to work with the
Courier mail server only. Somehow, whoever created the package that you are
using has bastardized and perverted the Courier-specific version of the POP3
server to work with Postfix.
You're far likely to get some help by looking up where the package you're
using came from, and ask that source from help. It's unlikely that anyone
here would be able to offer any assitance with your peculiar software
combination.
I've tried searching the internet but came up with nothing :-(
What is happening here and why can't the customer collect his 'old' email?
Because Courier POP3 and IMAP server does not support mboxes, only maildirs.
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