Postfix / Dovecot

[M. Lewis]

Ankush Grover wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/5/05, *M. Lewis* <_fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com <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