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

[Anne Wilson]

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On 25/06/12 16:29, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:18:36PM +0100, Anne wrote in 
> <4FE8814C.7020003 at kde.org>:
>>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I have a dovecot IMAP server.  Procmail sorts the mail into 
>> directories on my server.  The only use I would expect in 
>> /var/spool/mail is if the system needs to send a message - and 
>> that normally would be to root.  Of course root is aliased to
>> one of my mail accounts.
> 
> Hi Anne,
> 
> 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.

I tried Frank's strace suggestion - and saw practically nothing
(Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"), so I tried
logging out and in, and restarting, to see if the problem was
triggered by first-time use in either of these situations, but I
didn't get the message on either occasion.  Perhaps it's cured.

Anne
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