[Techtalk] using courier pop and maildir oddness- resolved

[Carla Schroder]

It was a Debian silliness. Debian makes a bunch of weird entries in main.cf, 
this was the problem entry:

mailbox_command = procmail -a $EXTENSION

I'm not using procmail, and Postfix thought it was handing off to Procmail. 
The relevant mail.log entry:

May 19 20:26:11 windbag postfix/local[13389]: C8603EC42: to=<foober at test.net>, 
relay=local, delay=1, status=sent ("|procmail -a $EXTENSION")

I commented it out, and everything works, yay.


On Wednesday 19 May 2004 8:40 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I'm having an odd problem with Courier POP and Postfix. Courier requires 
> Maildir folders. I have Maildir set as the default in Kmail, and my existing 
> Kmail folders, in ~/Mail, are an eclectic blend of mbox and Maildir. But 
> user's folders in /var/mail are mbox. So when I check mail with Kmail, 
> Courier whines about "Maildir: No such file or directory". 
> 
> In main.cf, I have 
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
> mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
> 
> In /etc/pop3d, I have:
> # MAILDIRPATH=Maildir
> MAILDIRPATH=/var/mail/
> 
> I can send messages over the LAN, and they land in /var/mail/$user. But they 
> are in mbox format. So I can retrieve messages with telnet or mail, but not 
> with a POP mail client.
> 
> any ideas what's going on? Is /var/mail/$user supposed to store all messages 
> in a single flat file, then the mail client translates to Maildir? Why is 
> Courier complaining? 
> 
> thanks!
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