On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Douglas C. Stephens wrote:
Not really sure either of these are about Postfix.
Douglas, Me, neither, but I want to eliminate it if appropriate.
1. No clue. I have no users that run Alpine.
OK.
2. My mailbox servers don't use Qualcomm's qpopper, but this looks like qpopper is having a cow about a corrupted inbox/spoolfile.
Yes, it certainly does.
Does her var/spool/mail/<her_username> inbox file (and the path down to /it) have the correct owner+perms?
I don't know.
I don't have any Ubuntu servers,
Me, neither. I run Slackware, but found her older Toshiba worked better with Xubuntu because the latter allows both wireless and sound to work with no hassles on my part.
... but here are the owner+perms from a RHEL5.3:
Well, there were differences, but the perms should have been correctly set from the tape backup. Regardless, I changed the ones in /var/spool/mail to match yours. If that doesn't solve the problem ...
If not owner+perms, see this link that turned up on a Google search of your logged error:
I'll check these out. I did not enter that error in Google; I should have done that first thing. Thank you, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
