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 already manually made a directory /var/spool/mail and copied my mailfile from /var/mail/sebas to /var/spool/mail I can read it, and received messaged are appended to the end of the file.
> I don't know where pine searches for the mailboxfile so you can check this. Usually in /var/mail I guess, that always worked. > 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 have just installed fetchmail, but how can I set the mailserver address. I have already tried: fetchmail -v --smtphost localhost --smtpaddress localhost but fetchmail keeps complaining. > > > 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? already searched for it, but I only see the mailfiles of the users. There is also nothing to find in /var/lock. Thanks, Sebastiaan
