Re: [Nolug] Trouble with mail

--- Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com> wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ronjohnsonjr@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> is courier imap running the courier-ipop3d daemon?

No, it's the Debian ipop3, which is uw-pop3d

> Where is it logging to?

output going to /var/log/mail.log & /var/log/syslog.

> Can you "telnet localhost 110"? If you can at the
> first
> prompt type "USER <username>" and hit enter. It should then tell
> you
> to enter a password for that account. type "PASS <yourpassword>"
> enter.
> Is there an error mesage or does it tell you the mailbox is ready?
> type Ctrl-] to escape out of telnet and close the session.

$ telnet haggis pop3
Trying 192.168.1.1...
Connected to haggis.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 haggis v2003.83 server ready
USER me
+OK User name accepted, password please
PASS snarfle
+OK Mailbox open, 0 messages
^]
quit

It's like suddenly the popd isn't looking in at /var/mail/me
anymore.

The frustrating/confusing thing is that other users in /var/mail
can still get their mail.

# dir /var/mail/me
-rw-rw---- 1 me mail 625707 Oct 28 11:34 /var/mail/me

> Your main weapon in troubleshooting this is finding the logs.

Looked in them, and it just confirms what I said earlier:
suddenly it stopped seeing /var/mail/me.
 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Unfortunately, I suddenly have a little bit of trouble receiving
> > mail.
> >
> > Here's my setup:
> > fetchmail->amavisd-new->SpamAssassin->postfix
> > ipop3d->Evolution (this is so that Reply will work)
> >
> > This has been working for the past month, with Evo perfectly
> happy
> > fetching from haggis (the name of localhost) instead of
> > pop.east.cox.net.
> >
> > Postfix is appending new messages into /var/mail/me, so I know
> > that that part works.
> >
> > It seems like Evo 1.4.4 just doesn't want to get the pop mail
> > anymore from the account 'me@haggis', although it seems perfectly
>
> > fine popping mail from 'spam-quarantine@haggis' (which is where
> SA
> > sends all spam.
> >
> > It all started when I installed courier-imap.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?

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