On 6/17/05, Fredrik Jervfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> My e-mail server is a Debian Sarge one, with Squirrelmail 1.4.4,
> >>> uw-imap, popa3d. It has about 1500 e-mail account.
> >>>
> >>> It works fine if my users use Squirrelmail to read theire e-mails.
> >>>
> >>> I have also installed popa3d because my users need to use Outlook or
> >>> other e-mail clients, with POP3 protocol.
> >>>
> >>> E-mails received in /var/spool/mail/$username are redirected in
> >>> /home/$username when users read their e-mails with squirrelmail
> >>> frontend.
> >>>
> >>> The problème is that popa3d reads e-mails in /var/spool/mail/$username
> >>> !
> >>> If a user read a mail with Outlook, this mail is no longer visible in
> >>> squirrelmail…
> >>>
> >>> How could I solve the problem ?
> >>>
> >>> Can mail be dropped directly to /home/$username and popa3d configured
> >>> to read mails in here ?
> >>
> >>
> >> With UW you have two places I know of to keep your INBOX:
> >> /var/spool/mail/$username or /home/$username/Mbox (at least I think the
> >> filename was Mbox). If you use the latter UW will move the mails from
> >> the former when logging in. Solution:
> >>
> >> Check that /var/spool/mail/$username is empty and then:
> >>
> >>
> >> mv /home/$username/Mbox /var/spool/mail/$username
> >>
> >> That may be quick and dirty, and there might be other solutions, but I
> >> think it'll work since the POP3 server should be able to access the
> >> spool file.
> >>
> >> Keep in mind that the POP3 client will have to be configured to keep the
> >> mails at the server or else you won't be able to access them through
> >> SquirrelMail.
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help Frederik, but I can't use the "mv
> > method", because my hard disk space is large on /home/ partition, but
> > small on /var/ partition...
> >
> > Just a question: why Squirrelmail or uw-imap copy e-mails from /var to
> > /home only on login? Shouldn't we move e-mails directly in /home/ without
> > user's login? Can I use another program (like procmail) to put e-mails on
> > the good location?
>
>
> Pity that the suggestion didn't work for you. It's the IMAP server (i.e.
> UW) which moves the mail from the spool file to the home directory, so
> that has nothing to do with SquirrelMail. If you want to move the mail
> upon arrival it's a configuration thing for your SMTP server or your IMAP
> server, or maybe there's a daemon that can do it. Unfortunately I don't
> know the answer since I never needed that feature. You might have better
> luck on a mailinglist for UW.
>
> Sincerely,
> Fredrik.
>
>
Are you sure that the outlook pop3 clients are set to leave the mail
on the server? I know this is really basic, but it's been overlooked
before.
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