Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:56:35 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBsd e-mail question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1071004163422.4333B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20071004002231.CF6ED16A4A0@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> wrote:
> The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by
> rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file,
> removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is
> to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a
> problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new
> account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge:
>
> -ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc.
>
> If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
> ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
>
> -rw-rw---- 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
> .jjvc.pop
>
> Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
> that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
I've read this whole thread, and what's strange is that this used to
work. I just checked our old FreeBSD 2.2.6 system where rmuser always
cleaned up /var/mail/.{$user}.pop properly. Its /usr/sbin/rmuser had:
# Remove some pop daemon's leftover file
$file = "$mail_dir/.${login_name}.pop";
if (-e $file || -l $file) {
print STDERR "Removing pop daemon's temporary mail file ${file}:";
unlink $file ||
print STDERR "\n${whoami}: Warning: unlink on $file failed ($!) - continuing\n";
print STDERR " done.\n";
}
So I wonder whether it's a bug - or maybe a later popper update? - that
has the present version of rmuser looking for ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
instead?
Cheers, Ian
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