OK, I backed out Cyrus IMAP and went to dovecot. Trouble is when I attempt to get the mail from a Windows box, maillog shows Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3-login: Login: judy [192.168.1.135] Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3(judy): open(/var/mail/judy.lock) failed: Permission denied Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3(judy): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/judy: Permission denied Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3(judy): open(/var/mail/judy.lock) failed: Permission denied Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3(judy): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/judy: Permission denied Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050cb0 (0) Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084da0 (1) Jul 1 00:41:59 swtf pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8065e20 Any clues? Burn On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 23:22, Burn Alting wrote: > Hi Again, > > Well a little bit more reading and I have solved my b. problem - rather > than playing around with sendmail - oh for a GUI interface to > sendmail!!!! - I switched to the postfix MTA and made the simple change > - all new e-mail is delivered to the Cyrus IMAP system. > > My question is now, how do I convert outstanding e-mail in > /var/spool/mail? > > Thanks > Burn > > > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 22:40, Burn Alting wrote: > > Hi peoples, > > > > I just installed FC2 onto my system which was running Redhat 9.0 (RH9) > > > > On the RH9 system I used to serve some users e-mail accounts using pop3. > > As these were casual Windows users, I'd run fetchmail to collect their > > e-mail from the ISP and then their e-mail would wait in > > /var/spool/mail/user_name until they checked their e-mail from their > > Windows PC. Their PC's would send their e-mail directly to the ISP's > > smtp server so I didn't configure sendmail or postfix. > > > > With the change to my system to FC2, I discovered that pop3 is now > > managed by the Cyrus IMAP mailer system. I worked out how to create > > their mailboxes and login via cyrus but I am at a loss to find out how > > to > > a. Convert their existing /var/spool/mail/xxx mailboxes > > to the Cyrus system > > and > > b. Given they are casual users, I want to still use > > fetchmail to get their mail off the ISPs' system, so > > how do I get any new mail into the Cyrus system > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Burn
