On Monday, October 26, 2009 at 21:48 CET,
Rupert Reid <isingl...@madasafish.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your offer of help. I was able to locate he problem -
> for some inexplicable reason the permissions to /var/mail/user was
> corrupted (exactly what was written on the tin) - meaning that
> postfix could not access the account to deliver incoming mail. I
> could not correct the permissions by usual means.
Really, why not?
> I had to remove the file and reboot postfix, enabling postfix to
> create a new empty user file which is now working fine.
There must be some misconception here. Postfix only creates mailbox
files upon delivery, and then they will obviously not be empty.
> However, does anyone know how I might easily copy the contents of the
> old user file to the new one?
If you stop Postfix you could just use cp(1). If you use postlock(1) to
avoid losing email because of race conditions you should be able to use
the same command while Postfix is running.
--
Magnus Bäck
mag...@dsek.lth.se
