[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail - SOLVED?

Remco Rijnders remco at webconquest.com
Mon Jun 25 17:47:36 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:43:37PM +0100, Anne wrote in 
<4FE88729.4080506 at kde.org>:
>> So, if you use imap locally, as it sounds like you do, then
>> Thunderbird has no place in even trying to touch
>> /var/spool/mail/anne . In this case, if /var/spool/mail/anne is
>> seperate from your regular mail account, I think you may want to
>> tell dovecot about it so it can serve it over imap to thunderbird.
>> Having postfix, dovecot, and thunderbird all trying to access
>> /var/spool/mail/anne and even attempting locks on it might give all
>> sort of issues.
>>
>Hi, Remmy.  No, the IMAP server is on a different box.  This laptop is
>pure client.
>
>It's odd, but I may have solved the problem.  That said, I still don't
>understand why.  During the time I've been trying to solve this, I
>have made two changes.  First I added a newline character in
>/var/spool/mail/anne - this seems to have disappeared, so I doubt if
>that was the reason.  The other change was to make the ownership
>anne:mail.  Maybe that helped?  I don't know.

Well, glad to hear it is solved! I have the feeling the permissions / 
ownership may have had the most to do with it, but as I don't know what 
they were like priorly, that's just a guess.

Remmy
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