No new mails coming

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Ubuntu 7.04 server amd64
Postfix 2.3.8
SquirrelMail version 1.4.11



I discovered the cause of the non-arrival of incoming mails to users. The mails were not rejected.

Users have their mailbox on $HOME/Maildir. Addtionally they have another mail_files on;

$ ls /var/mail/
Maildir user1 user2 user3 user4 etc.

$ ls /var/mail/Maildir/
cur new tmp

/var/mail/Maildir/cur and /tmp are empty
/var/mail/Maildir/new having spam mails


Each time when new mails arrive the same will be added on their mail-files on /var/mail. For such a reason the new mails never arrive on $HOME/Maildir.


When creating a new account with;

$ sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash user100

New mail box will be created on user's $HOME/Maildir automatically. However the first new mail to user100 will create a new mail_file on /var/mail/user100. All later mails to user100 will be added on /var/mail/user100 (the mail_file)


Please advise where shall I check and how to fix this problem. I don't need mail_files. I need all incoming mails delivered on respective $HOME/Maildir. TIA


B.R.
satimis

[athlon_crazy]

U need mail files in /var/mail so user can read / fetch their own mails from any mail clients...it's ok when all new mails goes to mail files. What you have to do now, configure & point your mail client to read mails from /var/mail location...

[satimis]

U need mail files in /var/mail so user can read / fetch their own mails from any mail clients...it's ok when all new mails goes to mail files. What you have to do now, configure & point your mail client to read mails from /var/mail location...

Thanks for your advice.


Users' mail-files are already there. All new mails wlll be added to respective mail-files which arrangement is NOT my orginal setup. My previous setup was all incoming mails will be delivered to respective Maildir separatedly not being added together in a single file.


My fix is creating /etc/procmailrc and addiding following 3 lines on it;

DROPPRIVS=YES 
ORGMAIL=$HOME/Maildir/ 
DEFAULT=$ORGMAIL

in parallel retaining the line;

mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

on /etc/postfix/main.cf


Now the original setup has been restored. I have no idea how such change was made.


B.R.
satimis