Postfix / Dovecot
M. Lewis
_fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com
Mon Sep 5 04:49:33 UTC 2005
Ankush Grover wrote:
>
>
> On 9/5/05, *M. Lewis* <_fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com <http://cajuninc.com>>
> wrote:
>
> M. Lewis wrote:
> > Stuart Sears wrote:
> >
> >> M. Lewis enlightened us with the following gems on 09/04/2005
> 09:36 PM:
> >>
> >>> (Related to '[FC4] Thunderbird Inbox gone')
> >>>
> >>> Would someone who is running Postfix and Dovecot please tell me the
> >>> perms on the files in /var/spool/mail/.
> >>>
> >>> I question whether my perms are correct based on an old backup.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>
> >> drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 May 20 08:31 /var/spool/mail
> >> /var/spool/mail/<user>:
> >> -rw-rw---- 1 <user> mail 0 Apr 29 16:38 <user>
> >>
> >> Stuart
> >
> >
> > Thanks Stuart.
> >
> > That's what my old backups show. My current perms are:
> >
> > > -rw------- 1 <user> mail 0 Apr 29 16:38 <user>
> >
> > How they got changed is certainly a mystery. Not sure that will solve
> > the problem, but will give it a try. Thanks.
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> I changed the perms to match yours. Still no 'new' mail being received.
> Although I can see it coming into the /var/spool/mail/<user>
>
> M
>
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> check the logs
>
> tail -f /var/log/maillog
>
> and see whether there are any error logs .
>
> Regards
>
> Ankush Grover
>
>
>
Thanks Ankush, the problem turned out to be mostly selinux. See the
thread '[FC4] Thunderbird Inbox gone [solved]'
M
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