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msb21
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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:05 pm Post subject: Postfix, Courier-imap not sending.delivering mail |
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After searching the forum I haven't found the solution to my problem with email. I can not send and receive email, I can telnet and login to ports 25 and 143. I get this error in /var/log/mail
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Oct 11 16:05:01 [postfix/local] D366EBDC25: to=<matt@techiesalumni.com>, orig_to=<webmaster@techiesalumni.com>, relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (cannot access mailbox /home/matt/Maildir for user matt. cannot open file: Is a directory
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Any thoughts? I have tried to change Maildir to .maildir and Maildir/ does seem to help. The ironic thing is that this was a functioning mail server... must have been careless with the etc-update after an emerge -u
world.
I know its a config issue as I am having the same issue with the same config on FreeBSD...
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kashani
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:56 am Post subject: |
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Check your /etc/postfix/main.cf and make sure you've specified the mailbox style correctly. I think the Gentoo default for maildir is
home_mailbox = .maildir/ or home_mailbox = Mailbox for mbox style. Also make sure the user owns the maildir or files.
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msb21
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your help. I have confirmed your suggestions,
in /etc/postfix/main.cf
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home_mailbox=.maildir/
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exactly as typed... looking into user matt, a ls -la
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drwxr-xr-x 7 matt users 4096 Oct 6 10:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 2 22:18 ..
drwx------ 5 matt users 4096 Oct 6 10:11 .Sent
-rw------- 1 matt users 2233 Oct 11 16:35 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 matt users 4096 Apr 16 18:02 .gentoo
drwx------ 17 matt users 4096 Sep 5 23:19 .maildir
drwx------ 5 matt users 4096 Apr 1 2003 .maildir-sent
-rw-r--r-- 1 matt users 33 Apr 1 2003 .muttrc
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kashani
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:50 am Post subject: Re: Postfix, Courier-imap not sending.delivering mail |
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Oct 11 16:05:01 [postfix/local] D366EBDC25: to=<matt@techiesalumni.com>, orig_to=<webmaster@techiesalumni.com>, relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (cannot access mailbox /home/matt/Maildir for user matt. cannot open file: Is a directory
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According to the log it looks like it's trying to write to Maildir instead or .maildir. I wonder if you've got multiple settings for the mailbox setting. Do a postconf -n and see if anything looks strange in your settings.
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Chris W
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It looks to be expecting an MBOX but finding your Maildir directory.
Your config looks correct though. I note that you're missing spaces that are present in my main.cf: | Code: | | home_mailbox = .maildir/ |
I can't imagine it's that picky, but it can't hurt to try.
Have you restarted Postfix since changing the config file?
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