From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 05:06:10 CST

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On Mon, February 7, 2005 10:15 am, postfix said:

> denis moeller wrote:
>
> > I have installed and configured postfix, courier & mysql by following
> > Serge's HOWTO.
> > After some messing with maildrop and those mysql*.cf files, almost
> > everything seems to be smooth.
> > I know that maildrop must have received the right mail- and homedir
> > from mysql,

How do you know that?

> > but the mail is not being moved into the right directory.
> > "cur", "new" and "tmp" keep being empty. Instead, the mail get dumped
> > to a file "var/mail/vmail" - which I never configured anywhere.
> > How come?
> > There's no warning/error output to messages nor to mail-log. Any idea?
> > TIA!
>
> /var/mail/vmail is the default maildrop delivery place for some mail
> packages. you must tell those packages that you want mail delivery to
> the directory of your choice. in postfix:
>
> virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/maildrop/

Unless virtual_transport = virtual, setting this parameter is useless.

If maildrop delivers messages to the wrong place, it's hardly a Postfix
problem. Invoke maildrop manually (possibly with debug output enabled) and
observe what happens.

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Magnus Bäck
magnusdsek.lth.se

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