[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Anne Wilson]

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On 25/06/12 14:05, James Kerr wrote:
> On 25/06/2012 13:28, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:21:24 +1000 Doug Laidlaw 
>> <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> But you use Postfix.  I use getmail.  Both deliver mail to 
>>> /var/spool/mail/user.  If Anne is downloading her mail
>>> directly via POP, /var/spool/mail/anne will never be used.
>>> Kmail is like that.  In both cases, the mail is placed in the
>>> appropriate place in $HOME. I am running getmail as user, so I
>>> had to create /var/spool/mail/doug manually.  It is an mbox
>>> file, so can be created with "touch." Postfix runs as root, and
>>> can create the spool if necessary.
>>> 
>>> It did occur to me that the config screens may say what the 
>>> directories are, but it looks as though $HOME/.thunderbird is 
>>> the place to look.
>>> 
>>> Doug.
>>> 
>> Of course, if Anne _is_ using a local mail server, Thunderbird 
>> must point to /var/spool/mail/anne.  But she can receive mail on 
>> the notebook, where that file doesn't exist, so I assume she is 
>> using straight POP or IMAP.
>> 
> 
> If indeed Anne is using POP or IMAP to collect "local" mail then I 
> don't think she needs to configure a Unix Movemail account in 
> thunderbird. I believe it is that account that is looking at 
> /var/spool/mail/anne. Perhaps she has such an account on Mageia 2
> but not in cauldron, which would explain why she does not see the
> error messages on cauldron.
> 
To be honest I don't recall ever hearing of movemail before this, so I
don't know where it comes from.

Anne
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