Ankush Grover wrote:
On 9/5/05, *M. Lewis* <_fedoralist_@xxxxxxxxxxxx <http://cajuninc.com>>
wrote:
M. Lewis wrote:
> Stuart Sears wrote:
>
>> M. Lewis enlightened us with the following gems on 09/04/2005
09:36 PM:
>>
>>> (Related to '[FC4] Thunderbird Inbox gone')
>>>
>>> Would someone who is running Postfix and Dovecot please tell me the
>>> perms on the files in /var/spool/mail/.
>>>
>>> I question whether my perms are correct based on an old backup.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 May 20 08:31 /var/spool/mail
>> /var/spool/mail/<user>:
>> -rw-rw---- 1 <user> mail 0 Apr 29 16:38 <user>
>>
>> Stuart
>
>
> Thanks Stuart.
>
> That's what my old backups show. My current perms are:
>
> > -rw------- 1 <user> mail 0 Apr 29 16:38 <user>
>
> How they got changed is certainly a mystery. Not sure that will solve
> the problem, but will give it a try. Thanks.
>
> M
>
>
I changed the perms to match yours. Still no 'new' mail being received.
Although I can see it coming into the /var/spool/mail/<user>
M
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check the logs
tail -f /var/log/maillog
and see whether there are any error logs .
Regards
Ankush Grover
Thanks Ankush, the problem turned out to be mostly selinux. See the
thread '[FC4] Thunderbird Inbox gone [solved]'
M
