mailbox appears empty via pop3

[kermit1]

Hi,

I have a domain set up - say example.com - with half a dozen mailboxes. Sending mail to those accounts goes through (ie it doesn't bounce) and I can see the mail sitting in /var/spool/virtual/example.com/username.

If I try to access the mailbox via pop3, it logs me in ok, but says there are zero messages. The mail file is owned by the owner of example.com, belongs to the 'mail' group, and has permissions -rw-rw----

Part of the problem is that I can't seem to find a log file for vm-pop3d (which might show any problems)

Can anyone help please?

 

[floyd]

The log is /var/log/maillog

And I have found that most of the time permissions are wrong on the directory or files. There is a set permissions script in the directadmin directory somewhere.

 

[kermit1]

Thank you so much, that worked a treat. The script you referred to is set_permissions.sh (just for the benefit of anyone else in the same situation).

/var/log/maillog hasn't been written to on my system in over 6 months, but sounds like another story

 

[floyd]

/var/log/maillog is what vm-pop3d writes to. Maybe the file is too big for your system.