Re: postfix

[steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com>]

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Mihira Fernando wrote:
| On Monday 09 June 2008 08:41:50 steve wrote:
| [snip]
|> thats right, I did use courier, and apparently the error I am getting
|> now is "mail server at mail.reillyblog.com responded: chdir Maildir
|> failed"  the only thing I did different from that guide was to choose
|> internet site, not satellite as I did not want to use my ISP to deliver
|> mail.  Ill figure it out sooner or later, im pretty close i think?!
|>
| That error message means the pop server cannot open the maildir
directory for
| the given user. This can happen for 2 reasons.
| 1. the path to maildirs is wrong

ok, postfix seems to be writing mail to /var/mail/username is this what
its suppose to do?  when I send mail from elsewhere, thats where I find it.

| 2. the maildir has not been created yet.

there is no directory on this machine named maildir or Maildir. I ran
"locate Maildir", the only thing that came up was a readme in
/doc/procmail.  so....... the only reference I found to maildir was in
/etc/courier/pop3d-ssl so I changed the MAILDIRPATH to /var/mail.  after
restart, now when I try to download mail with thunderbird I get the same
error message. "sending of password did not succeed.  mail server
mail.reillyblog.com responded: chdir Maildir.

Do I need to physically create a directory named "Maildir"?  and under
what directory does it get placed?  Thanks.

|
| If its #1, recheck the courier configuration to see if the path for the
| maildirs is correctly given. Basically, the path where Postfix saves the
| mails should be the same for the Courier to go and open up the mails.
|
| if its #2, Simply send an email to the given user before checking his
mail.
| Courier does not create the maildir folders automatically so if this is a
| brand new user, forst send the user a test mail so that the maildor
folders
| will be created and then check email from thunderbird.
|
| Mihira.
|
|


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