On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:43:56AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, > > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). > > > Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some change to the path > > > where incoming mail is stored. Received mail does appear in /var/mail/. > > > > > > Someone know how to fix this? Normaly your incoming Mails are queued in /var/spool/mail/<user> (or related). Try to open your User file with a normal editor like emacs. I don't know where pine searches for the mailboxfile so you can check this. Also interesting is with wich tool you get your mail? I use fetchmail and I recomend to use it for everyone else. So try a fetchmail -v.
> I also found out that when I log into my pop3 port (qpopper) and try to > login, the daemon responds: > -ERR maillock: cannot lock '/var/mail/sebas': ! > > and closes the connection. The directory exists and I set all the > permission bits, but it does not work. Could it be that there is a lockfile in the directory? CU, SVEN
