vm-pop3d

[floyd]

I think I have read everything here about vm-pop3d.

My problem is similar to many of the posts here yet none of the suggestions have worked.

Mail is being delivered to the mailbox. I can ssh in and see it and read it.

Any imap client can see the mail whether is it is Squirrelmail or Thunderbird.

Yet Thunderbird or Outlook Express cannot download the mail using pop3. It authenticates just fine but indicates that there are no new messages.

The maillog indicates successful logins but nmsgs=0.

Its almost like vm-pop3d is looking in the wrong place for the email file. The mail I see is in /var/spool/virtual/domain.com/username. Of course domain.com is in place of the real domain and username in place of the real username.

I was running it in daemon mode and then switched to xinetd. Nothing changed.

I cannot think of anything I did to the server at all when this started happening. I am not even just thinking of stuff related to mail but I can't think of anything at all I did.

Thanks
Floyd

 

[nobaloney]

Is there actually anything in the file when your mail client says there isn't?

Jeff

 

[floyd]

Yes mail is in the file.


I did find the problem though. The problem is a permissions problem. Somehow the group ownership got change from mail to the user name of the main account.

I thought it was possible I could have done something that did since on that particular server there is only one user but now I can find it on another server where there are multiple users and only one set of domains for one user was changed.

So I am not sure what is going on. Once I change the group back to mail everything works fine.

I will keep an eye on it and see if it happens again and see if I find find out exactly when it is happening.

It seems like vm-pop3 would produce some kind of error though if it was a permissions problem. But it didn't.