This is my first attempt at installing a qmail-ldap+courier IMAP email
server. I am trying to set it up identical to to our current working
qmail-ldap+courier IMAP email server (built by admin before me). I have
things working pretty good except for one behavior. On my old server as
mail came in for a new user it would create a new directory under
/var/qmail/users with there username and then create the sub folders
cur, tmp, and new under that. So it would look like this
/var/qmail/users/newuser
/var/qmail/users/newuser/tmp
/var/qmail/users/newuser/cur
/var/qmail/users/newuser/new
on my new system as mail comes in qmail (I assume it is qmail that does
it) creates another subfolder called Maildir. So the directory
structure on the new system looks like this
/var/qmail/users/newuser
/var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir
/var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir/new
/var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir/cur
/var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir/tmp
this throws courier imap off and actually fails to authenticate the
user. It gives an error saying
* BYE Clock skew detected. Check the clock on the file server
in searching the net for that answer I came across something saying
courier IMAP is trying to create a file in tmp folder and compare its
time stamp to the servers time. Turns out that if it can't create the
file in tmp dir it throws the clock skew error. So I decided to get rid
of the Maildirs directory and manually move cur, tmp, and new up one
directory and rm -rf the Maildirs directory. After I did that courier
would authenticate and I could see the mail in the cur using Evolution
imap client.
I know it was probably a step in the setup I forgot to do but I can't
seem to figure this one out. How do I get qmail to deliver to
/var/qmail/users/newuser rather than /var/qmail/users/newuser/Maildir
I have this set
[EMAIL PROTECTED] control]# cat ldapmessagestore
/var/qmail/users
Any one have an idea where I went wrong?
Thanks,
Jared
