Good morning,
I've a problem that has been harassing me for a week now. I'm no qmail/vpopmail expert, but I've solved most all my problems over the years with the archives and The qmail Handbook. So I've done my share of troubleshooting and I think I have a pretty good grasp on how qmail vpopmail work. This one has me stumped.
I have a user who claims he is not getting emails. I can find the delivery using qmLogsort and the log shows the messages delivered just fine.
2005-03-17 11:33:37.868623500 new msg 3415139
2005-03-17 11:33:37.868763500 info msg 3415139: bytes 9817 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 93531 uid 89
2005-03-17 11:34:37.429451500 end msg 3415139
2005-03-17 11:33:37.877803500 starting delivery 783121: msg 3415139 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005-03-17 11:34:08.086894500 delivery 783121: success: did_0+0+2/
Looks good, the users .qmail file looks like so,
# less /home/vpopmail/domains/xxxxx.com/.qmail-alicia\:hitchcock
|/home/vpopmail/bin/tls-spamtest.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete
Two program deliveries as it should be. Yet the user claims the message never arrived and the pop3d log is useless other than for mrtg. The tls-spamtest.sh script is a modified version of ifspamh and delivers all spam to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account, which we check, and the messages are not arriving there. The spamd log shows the message was clean.
The odd thing is that I have another user claiming the same thing and again I can find the message. I even changed this users .qmail file to this,
# less /home/vpopmail/domains/xxxxx.com/.qmail-joel\:daas /home/vpopmail/domains/xxxxx.com/0/joel.daas/Maildir/ /home/vpopmail/domains/xxxxx.com/0/joeltest/Maildir/
Every message he receives should deliver to the joeltest account *if* the delivery to joel.daas was successful. The logs show this. This delivery doesn't even use vdelivermail so I've effectivly cut everything I could from the delivery process.
2005-03-16 10:55:56.890400500 starting delivery 754144: msg 3415073 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005-03-16 10:55:57.559319500 delivery 754144: success: did_2+0+0/
Interestingly, the joeltest account has never lost a message. Whenever joel.daas claims he did not receive a message, I can find it in joeltest.
Now my take on this is the users have an issue with their mail clients, or they are a bit too quick with the delete button. How do I prove it? I can show where the logs say the message was handed to two programs or delivered to two files, but I can't prove the user got the message beyond that.
at the bottom of the .qmail file add a:
|/bin/ls -lat /home/vpopmail/domains/xxxxx.com/0/joel.daas/Maildir/ >>/var/log/joel.delivery.log
then "touch /var/log/joel.delivery.log" and "chown vpopmail:vchkpw /var/log/joel.delivery.log"
Now every time he recives a mail, it afterwards gives you a directorylisting, proving that the mail is there before his mail client fetches it.
/Kris
