Op 29-12-19 om 16:29 schreef Wietse Venema:
Richard Rasker:
So here is a striking difference between the old and the new machine
that I don't understand. Is there a way to figure out which process is
actually dumping the mail in /var/spool/mail? Because if it is still
maildrop, it isn't logging anything as it should.
Postfix logs all deliveries. Here is an example that you posted earlier:
Dec 28 21:54:08 mail postfix/local[2755]: 26F111E0377:
to=<r...@linetec.nl>, relay=local, delay=0.01, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01,
dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/maildrop)
Look for "status=sent" lines in your log. That will show whether
/usr/bin/maildrop is involved.
All logged mail events (sending, receiving) have "status=sent" in the
second-last logged line in mail.log (the last line saying that it's
removed from the queue).
But some progress happened, even though I don't really understand how.
Up until two hours ago, mail *always* ended up in /var/spool/mail, even
when I deleted "/usr/bin/maildrop" after mailbox_command = in main.cf,
and the log entries also confirming that it was delivered to the maildir:
... status=sent (delivered to maildir)
(I can match these entries with messages in /var/spool/mail, not with
any messages in any Maildir directory as I would expect).
Yet now, all of a sudden, new test messages show up in the correct
Maildir folders. The one thing I did apart from changing the
mailbox_command parameter back and forth was making the file
/var/spool/mail/[username] read-only (chmod 400). This never resulted in
any error messages BTW. (And yes, main.cf specified home_mailbox =
Maildir/ all the time -- as already stated in my very first message here.)
So I have no idea what fixed at least the behaviour of postfix, and
maildrop still refuses to work properly (i.e. it still sends mail to
/var/spool/mail, and refuses to log anything), but at least I have a
functional maildir system -- also after completely rebooting the box
just to make sure. I'll try and sort out the maildrop conundrum later --
and as I never actually used its filtering capabilities in the first
place, I might even leave it at this.
Thank you once again for your hints and support!
Best regards,
Richard
