Very weird problem with my email...

[Drowned]

First of all, all the services are up, working and listening and I can connect to them... i can see all emails in the following dir:

/home/user/mail/domain.com/info/new

But something is missing and not moving them to inbox. What could be causing this? Is there some kind of service that takes care of this?

Thanks for any help

 

[rpmws]

tail -f /var/log/maillog |grep email@address

see what you find as they try to download.

 

[Drowned]

tail -f /var/log/maillog |grep email@address

see what you find as they try to download.

I only get this:

Jun 7 22:54:28 server cpanelpop[86994]: Session Closed host=68.*.*.* ip= [email protected] [email protected] totalxfer=282
Jun 7 22:54:44 server cpanelpop[86997]: Login host=201.*.*.* ip= [email protected] [email protected]
Jun 7 22:54:44 server cpanelpop[86997]: Session Closed host=201.*.*.* ip= [email protected] [email protected] totalxfer=202
Jun 7 22:56:21 server cpanelpop[87057]: Login host=201.*.*.* ip= [email protected] [email protected]
Jun 7 22:56:22 server cpanelpop[87057]: Session Closed host=201.*.*.* ip= [email protected] [email protected] totalxfer=202

 

[deadlock]

/home/user/mail/domain.com/info/new

That doesn't look right, should it not be save to the inbox in this directory:

/home/user/mail/domain.com/info

 

[Drowned]

/home/user/mail/domain.com/info/new

That doesn't look right, should it not be save to the inbox in this directory:

/home/user/mail/domain.com/info

I think that's the problem... where can I change this configuration to tell it to use that instead of /new?

 

[deadlock]

You must have fiddled with it at some point because the default path doesn't include /new so whatever you did, undo it

 

[rpmws]

i think we are getting maildir and mbox mixed up. mbob sticks it all in a file called inbox. maildir puts things in folders.

 

[jrehmer]

I am having the exact same thing happening on a number of domains

root@server01 [/home2/blueworl/mail/blueworldhosting.com/jrehmer]# ls -laF
total 160
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 16 22:54 .BlueWorld/
drwxr-xr-x    2 blueworl blueworl     4096 May  8 13:55 courierimaphieracl/
drwxr-x---    2 blueworl blueworl    24576 Jun  8 09:34 courierimapkeywords/
-rw-r--r--    1 blueworl blueworl       92 May 31 22:45 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r--r--    1 blueworl blueworl    10937 Jun  8 09:34 courierimapuiddb
-rw-r--r--    1 blueworl blueworl    19121 May 25 10:55 courierpop3dsizelist
[B]drwx------    2 blueworl blueworl    36864 Jun  8 09:34 cur/[/B]
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 17 19:47 .Junk\ E-mail/
-rw-rw----    1 blueworl mail           32 May  7 19:04 .mailboxlist
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 31 22:45 .Med/
[B]drwx------    2 blueworl blueworl    12288 Jun  8 09:08 new/[/B]
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 16 19:16 .Sent/
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 17 19:52 .Sent\ Items/
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 16 13:18 .sent-mail/
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May 17 19:23 .Sent\ Mail/
drwx------    2 blueworl blueworl     4096 Jun  8 09:45 tmp/
drwx------    6 blueworl blueworl     4096 May  8 15:13 .Trash/

The cur and new folders are what puzzles me. I have "new" folders showing up under every account, and for some people who have not used their e-mail for a long time the mail is somehow getting delivered in the "new" folder. This only happens on certain accounts who use e-mail very rarely....but it is happening...

Is the cur folder the "Inbox" as I listed the above directory, I don't see an INBOX folder, and all the data is stored under cur it looks like. Could someone please explain to me how this is supposed to be working????

 

[jrehmer]

To follow up it appears that ALL new mail is being delivered to the new folder, and once its checked it is going to the cur folder.


Is this supposed to be happening?

 

[Drowned]

You must have fiddled with it at some point because the default path doesn't include /new so whatever you did, undo it

I don't even know were to modify this setting or how it got changed...

 

[jrehmer]

I don't even know were to modify this setting or how it got changed...

You didn't, it appears this is the way it works with maildir....