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Re: fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir



On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:46:30PM +0800, William Xu wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've got this problem and is unable to fetch mails now. The more
> detailed log is: 
> 
> ,----
> | fetchmail: POP3> USER william
> | fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
> | fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> | fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir
> | fetchmail: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir
> | fetchmail: Authorization failure on william@localhost
> | fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> `----
> 
> I believe this happens after i accidently did something similar to `rm
> -rf *' in $HOME(it's `rsync --delete'). I just fix Maildir by
> `maildirmake ~/Maildir', but the problem still exists.

maybe its permissions on the maildir? 

A

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