From: Michael McDaniel (pfautosys.us)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 20:14:57 CST

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:19:24PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote:
> <quote who="Wietse Venema">
> > Nick Smith:
> >> ok i get this when i run the above:
> >>
> >> mail root # postmap -q nicknyc0nshack.com `postconf -h
> >> virtual_mailbox_maps`
> >> /home/vmail/nyc0nshack.com/nick/.maildir/
> >>
> >> and that directory is where i am looking for new mail in the
> >> new
> >> cur and tmp dir's and there is nothing in them.
> >
> > In that case, something is moving the file elsewhere.
> >
> > Look for the modification times:
> >
> > ls -laRt /home/vmail/nyc0nshack.com/nick/.maildir/
> >
> > That may show you where it might have been moved.
> >
> > Wietse
> >
>
> mail root # ls -laRt /home/vmail/nyc0nshack.com/nick/.maildir/
<znip>
>
> i dont see anything when i do that command either. any other
> suggestions? kinda got me in a bind here.
>
> nick
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the following works on my SuSE rel 9.1 Linux system ...

$ touch foo
$ echo test | mail MyMailDirAddressMyDomain.TLD
$ sudo find /var/spool/mail/vmail -cnewer foo

My maildirs are in /var/spool/mail/vmail
Use any method of sending the test mail (and wait until delivered)
'sudo' since my login does not have permissions to mail spool directory

Substitute '/' for '/var/spool/mail' if you want to search everything
(make sure you aren't on a big network with lots of NFS mounts if you
are going to search from '/').

~Michael

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]