Re: ipop3d not moving mail from /var/spool/mail to mbox
Hi,
Just wanted to let everybody know that this was fixed by moving the mailboxes
to /var/mail and making /var/spool/mail a symlink that points to it. I wonder
why the upgrade script didn't do it automatically.
Apparently Mail and Ipop3d have been upgraded to use /var/mail already but
Exim and Pine (obviously, since I've built it myself) still use
/var/spool/mail.
- Jarno
On Sunday 17. Februaryta 2002 00:55, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> I have a small problem with ipop3d.
>
> After a recent system update, ipop3d stopped moving users' mail from
> /var/spool/mail to mbox. Now both 'mail' command and pop3 clients show
> empty mailbox even if exim has in fact pumped /var/spool/mail full of new
> messages.
>
> I previously had ipop3d with stunnel for SSL, but while trying to fix this
> problem I updated it to package 'ipop3d-ssl'.
>
> When the mails where working, /var/log/mail.info looked like this:
>
> -- clip --
> Feb 14 09:07:30 <host> ipop3d[16394]: Moved 4188 bytes of new mail to
> /home/<user>/mbox from /var/spool/mail/<user> host= <host> [127.0.0.1]
>
> Feb 14 09:07:30 <host> ipop3d[16394]: Login user=<user> host=<host>
> [127.0.0.1] nmsgs=2/2
> -- clip --
>
> Now the 'Moved xxx bytes' message is gone:
>
> -- clip --
> Feb 16 23:18:15 <host> ipop3d[30143]: pop3s SSL service init from
> <123.456.789.012>
>
> Feb 16 23:18:17 <host> ipop3d[30143]: Auth user=<user>
> host=<users.computer.net> [<123.456.789.012>] nmsgs=0/0
> -- clip --
>
> Anyone know a way to fix this?
>
> - Jarno
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