Rich,
Not really sure either of these are about Postfix. Nevertheless...
1. No clue. I have no users that run Alpine.
2. My mailbox servers don't use Qualcomm's qpopper, but this looks like
qpopper is having a cow about a corrupted inbox/spoolfile. Does her
/var/spool/mail/<her_username> inbox file (and the path down to it)
have the correct owner+perms? The SYS/PERM in the error message makes
think to check that first. I don't have any Ubuntu servers, but here are
the owner+perms from a RHEL5.3:
# ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail/stephens
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jan 23 21:38 /var
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 8 10:26 /var/spool
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jan 24 04:02 /var/spool/mail
-rw-rw---- 1 stephens mail 0 Oct 24 2007 /var/spool/mail/stephens
If not owner+perms, see this link that turned up on a Google search of
your logged error:
http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/faq.html#from.lines
If this turns out to be it, there are fixes in paragraphs 6 and 7.
At 04:06 PM 1/24/2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm running postfix-2.5.2 on what is now Slackware-12.2. Had the system
crash a week ago and, with udev and mkinitrd issues, it took until yesterday
afternoon to get it back up and working properly. But, two issues mail are
still to be resolved, and I need some advice on how to resolve them.
1) I run alpine on this box and now sending a message takes 10+ seconds
rather than almost-instantaneous completion. Same alpine version as before
the crash and restoration. I've no idea where to start looking for the
problem.
2) My wife uses thunderchicken as her MUA on her laptop running Xubuntu.
She connects to the network wirelessly and her incoming mail sits in
/var/spool/mail/<her_username> until the MUA collects it. Since the MTA came
/back yesterday she can send mail to me (within our network), but cannot
retrieve pending messages. /var/log/maillog shows, for example,
Jan 24 04:53:31 salmo qpopper[29179]: pamela at wap.appl-ecosys.com
(192.168.55.200): -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to process From lines (envelopes),
change recognition modes or check for corrupted mail drop.
Where do I start looking for this problem's source?
TIA,
Rich
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