[Dovecot] Dovecot, pop3, mBox
Matej Golob
matej at pohorje.net
Mon Jan 12 16:24:53 EET 2009
Thanks. It was permission problem (mail_privileged_group = mail solved it).
Matej
-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+matej=pohorje.net at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+matej=pohorje.net at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo
Sirainen
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:17 PM
To: Matej Golob
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot, pop3, mBox
On Jan 11, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Matej Golob wrote:
> I have to migrate some old system to new one with installed dovecot
> (It's my
> first time using dovecot). I have all mails inside /var/spool/mail
> folder
> (mbox files). I can connect and receive mails via POP3, but problem
> is that
> dovecot doesn't clear mbox file (everytime when I make send/receive in
> mailclient program I get all mails again).
>
> If I look into log file I see (when I do send/receive in mail client
> program)
> Jan 11 21:09:12 ns1 dovecot: POP3(matej): Disconnected: Logged out
> top=0/0,
> retr=5/23934, del=5/5, size=23848
Do you also see any error messages? They may be in a different log
file: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
My guess would be that there's a permission error with creating the
dotlock file. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox
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