Problem solved ... Due to case insensitiveness of Windows .Courier subfolder was mistaken as .courier delivery instructions file (hence the "Is a directory" message at logs) Once I changed the name from .Courier to .Courier_Users everything works fine ... I should have known better ... or simply avoided Windows ... ;) Thank you very much Tim, Gordon and Sam for your response and hints. Regards Constantine
> On 12/9/2012 12:07 πμ, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 09/11/2012 07:07 AM, Tim Lyth wrote: >> Could it be that .Courier is a directory, and `deliver` or its spawn are >> doing a case insensitive search of the Maildir to find delivery >> instructions, and are finding .Courier instead? If the host is a >> Windows Box, they are traditionally case insensitive so .Courier, >> .cOurIer, .COURIER and .courier are all considered the same? > > With a Windows NFS server, that sounds awfully likely. > > Constantine, you might want to review this article: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725747.aspx > > On 11/9/2012 5:07 μμ, Tim Lyth wrote: > On 11/09/2012 8:25 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Constantine Kousouris writes: >> >>>> What's different for you, then? Do you have a custom maildrop recipe? >>>> Let's see it. >>> >>> My maildir contains the following >>> >>> # ls -al >>> <snip> >>> drwx------ 2 1009 uucp 8192 Sep 10 17:48 .Courier >>> <snip> >>> >>> The only difference of my mailbox with a coleague's mailbox is that I >>> have some .courier-xxxx files. >> >> .courier files belong in an account's home directory. Not its maildir. >> >> You have configured your system so that the account's home directory >> and maildir are conflated together. That, undoubtedly, is causing >> problems somehow. > > Sam and Constantine, > > Could it be that .Courier is a directory, and `deliver` or its spawn are > doing a case insensitive search of the Maildir to find delivery > instructions, and are finding .Courier instead? If the host is a > Windows Box, they are traditionally case insensitive so .Courier, > .cOurIer, .COURIER and .courier are all considered the same? > > I have never played with .courier files in anyway, so I may be totally > way off the mark with this. > But having dealt with transferring files between Windows and Linux > systems, I am WELL aware of Windows being case insensitive for just > about everything except passwords. > > HTH, > Cheers, > Tim Lyth > On 11/9/2012 12:55 πμ, Sam Varshavchik wrote:> Constantine Kousouris writes: > >> This happens ONLY for me, all the other users (and they are a lot ...) >> do not have this problem ... > > What's different for you, then? Do you have a custom maildrop recipe? > Let's see it. > >> What exactly "deliver: Is a directory" mean ...??? > > "deliver" handles mail delivery. If it starts a child process that > complains about something on standard error, it gets logged, and deliver > gets blamed for it. > >> It is supposed to be a directory after all, since it is a maildir ... > > It means that something is a directory, when it shouldn't be: > > [mrsam@octopus ~]$ mkdir ttt > [mrsam@octopus ~]$ >ttt > -bash: ttt: Is a directory > >> In addition messages are delivered alright in maildir subfolders using >> dot-courier (.courier-zzzzz) ...!!! > > Ok, then let's look at your .courier files, too. > >> I assumed that there is something peculiar in my maildir that confuses >> mail delivery, so i created a brand new maildir. At first it worked fine >> and messages were deliverd for a while but soon the problem appeared >> again. > > That suggests a mail delivery script with a race condition that > occasionally gets triggered. > >> When I switch to the old Netapp system everything works fine ... >> >> Any ideas ...??? > > It could be that your old mail system was not triggering a race > condition. Entirely plausible. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
