Topic: Mail in ../MailDir/new, but not in 'admin' mailbox?!

[Patrick Basile]

I have a serious problem...I am not getting mail to my 'admin' account. (FYI - I upgraded from 4.1.2 to V5 yesterday.)  I think I know the problem, but don't have the answer to fix it.  I accidently deleted the ../Maildir/cur directory when I was using MC to see files last night (trying to diagnose my OTHER problem after the upgrade - Fetchmail.  I created a new ../cur directory, but apparently that didn't work.

I can see mail in the /home/e-smith/Maildir/new directory, and when I view it it is system messages, and the mail debug I asked for...all of which are supposed to be showing up in my 'admin' mailbox.  But when I login to 'admin' account thru IMP - no email.

I obviously messed something up when I deleted (stupid me! aargh) the ../cur directory last night.  Does anyone know how I can fix this mistake?  I'm dead in the water right now!

Thanks for your help...I need it.

Regards,
Patrick

PS - Does anyone have more specific instructions for setting up the new multi-pop Fetchmail?  These two files: fetchmail-5.8.17-1 and e-smith-fetchmail-0.2-7.

[stephen noble]

i guess you have checked the permissions.ownership

or
redirect admin to your own account

[Kelvin]

Patrick,

I use Vincent Filali's multi-pop fetchmail generator as well. Which part do you need help with ? I don't know ALL the options but I know enough to get my particular config working. I don't mind sharing what I know if you don't mind experimenting .

Kelvin

[Patrick Basile]

Stephen/Kelvin,

Thanks for responding.  It turns out the directory permissions were wrong for ../cur, so I changed them so that the owner and group was the 'admin' user.  Seems to have fixed the problem as email is now getting to that box.

As far as fetchmail, I was able to "test" and figure out what I needed to get that working as well.  I was having trouble with the first screen of options when you launch the panel, where it asks you whether to use e-smith multi-pop or not.  I was just confused I guess.  I'm no programmer, but more "help" on how to configure that would be nice.  Oh well.

Thanks for your tips/ideas/help!

Regards,
Patrick