Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:07:30 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Mark Carroll <marquis@stewie.jble.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Server Configuration Message-ID: <4367D912.7090201@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20051101144318.I43179@stewie.jble.com> References: <20051101144318.I43179@stewie.jble.com>
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Mark Carroll wrote: [ ... ] > I tried to contact washington.edu about this but wasn't able to get any > help. In which, I was trying to fix the mbox driver that is associated > with Pine to make all of my new mail stay in /var/mail/username and not > to transfer to /home/username/mbox. With this, I was also trying to > move all of the mail in /home/username/mbox back to /var/mail/username. > I tried to cp it to /var/mail/username but this made the box > inaccessible. In monkeying around with the configuration, now I cannot > receive mail in either box. Beforing monkeying with things (further :-), take some backups. Disable imapd, perhaps by killing inetd. Check whether SMTP delivery to /var/mail/username works. The simplest case involves delivery when no /var/mail/$user file exists, so check the ownership and perms created if that works. If that doesn't work, check your SMTP server and /var/log/maillog. > If you could show me how to reset to my original configuration, I would > be happy. If you could show me how I can move all of my email back to > /var/mail/username with the mbox driver disabled so that imap can find > it, I would be ecstatic. By default, UWash imapd should only move mail from /var/mail/$user to $user/mbox if $user/mbox exists. However, consider creating the following: 38-ns1% cat /usr/ports/mail/cclient/files/patch-mailsubdir --- src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c~ Mon Sep 13 17:31:19 2004 +++ src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c Sun Oct 9 00:14:45 2005 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static char *myMailboxDir = NIL;/* mailbox directory name */ static char *myLocalHost = NIL; /* local host name */ static char *myNewsrc = NIL; /* newsrc file name */ -static char *mailsubdir = NIL; /* mail subdirectory name */ +static char *mailsubdir = "mail"; /* mail subdirectory name */ static char *sysInbox = NIL; /* system inbox name */ static char *newsActive = NIL; /* news active file */ static char *newsSpool = NIL; /* news spool */ ...where you ought to create a ~/mail directory for users. Anyway, that area of the file is how you change imap's idea of where to look. -- -Chuck
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