On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:08:20PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > I just add an account via Edit --> Account settings --> Add other > account --> Unix Mailspool (Movemail) > > But no mail shows up. > > > There was nothing in /var/mail which is link to /var/spool/mail
That's perfectly logical. If there's no mail in the spool, it shouldn't show up. > > Here is what I did: > > /var/spool/mail# ln -sf /home/lina/Maildir/* . > > :/var/spool/mail# ls > cur new new.sbd tmp.msf Trash.msf Unsent Messages.msf > cur.msf new.msf tmp Trash Unsent Messages > > :/var/spool/mail/new# ls -1 | wc -l > 47 > > There were 47 new emails, but > $ mail > No mail for lina > > and in icedove, there is still nothing. I think Icedove is looking for an mbox file named "lina" in /var/spool/mail. You would have to reconfigure your MDA to deliver locally instead of to your Maildir directory in order for this to work.. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121102141945.gc3...@infotech.vrg.org
