[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

James Kerr jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk
Mon Jun 25 15:05:36 CEST 2012


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.

Jim





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