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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:25:25 -0500
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Ren=E9 Berber wrote:
> Michael Grand wrote:
>=20
>> Ren=E9 Berber wrote:
>>
>>> They have to be the same directory, thus the hardlink (man ln):
>>>
>>> ln /var/mail/spool /var/mail
>>>
>>> of course this has to be done after you delete the directory you create=
d.
>> /var/mail/spool does not exist.  Do you mean /var/spool ?
>=20
> No, I copied the paths in the wrong order, it should be:
>=20
> ln /var/mail /var/spool/mail

Wrong again, I have a soft link, not a hard link.  It doesn't make a differ=
ence
but you could also use:

ln -s /var/mail /var/spool/mail

But there's something wrong here, you said /var/mail does exist, it didn't =
in my
case.  I had /var/spool/mail and created the link as `ln -s /var/spool/mail
/var/mail`, I used the wrong order after looking at your message, but I don=
't
think it is right.

Better debug at the imapd level, run imapd:

$ /usr/sbin/imapd
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ IDLE UIDPLUS NAMESPACE CHILDREN
MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT ESEARCH SCAN SORT THREAD=3DREFERENCES
THREAD=3DORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] Pre-authenticated user rberber black
IMAP4rev1 2006i.385 at Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:22:22 -0500
a01 logout
* BYE black IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection
a01 OK LOGOUT completed

You probably will get the error when the user's mailbox can't be found.  If
there's no error then I was wrong and imapd uses /var/spool/mail/<username>=
 not
/var/mail/<username> (of course it could be exim the one using /var/mail/..=
. so
imapd will not see the messages.)
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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