On Thu, November 8, 2012 7:21 pm, Robert Schetterer wrote:

Am 08.11.2012 08:48, schrieb Patrick Shirkey:

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Hi,

I have an exim4 and dovecot system. The system has multiple accounts. Exim4 is receiving emails in the /var/mail/user files and dovecot is configured to use /home/user/mail (mbox) folder.

I have one account that dovecot is not processing replies/bounces/etc... The data is being written in the /var/mail/user file by exim4 but as far as dovecot is aware there is nothing in the pop3 inbox.

Can anyone suggest how I can enable dovecot to know that the data is in the /var/mail/user file and deliver it to the pop3 inbox for this account?

-- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

show logs and config like doveconf -n

There is nothing in the dovecot logs afaict

echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" test@xxx

2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s <= root@xxx U=root P=local S=398 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s => xxx test@xxx R=local_user T=mail_spool 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s Completed

exim -bt test@xxx R: system_aliases for xxx@localhost R: userforward for xxx@localhost R: procmail for xxx@localhost R: maildrop for xxx@localhost R: lowuid_aliases for xxx@localhost (UID 1238) R: local_user for xxx@localhost xxx@localhost <-- test@xxx router = local_user, transport = mail_spool

• Here's the dovecot config:

dovecot -n

# 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: 127.0.0.1 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

-- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd