Hi

10 mins ago my server was working fine with mail going into the /var/spool/mail folder. Now it is creating an mbox in the user's home folder. I don't know why it has suddenly changed.

I am running CentOS 4.4, with sendmail, procmail and a fully working spamassassin.

I can't think what I have done - although it was working fine until I rebuilt access.db and rebuilt sendmail.cf

The only change I remember making was to allow relay of local network hosts.

Oh - it is using dovecot imap. The default mail directory is /var/spool/mail so again, I don't know what is happening.

Mail is delivered but to the wrong place. Mail clients automatically get the /var/spool/mail/username as their inbox.

Help greatly appreciated.

I'm just (literally) working on a similar project.

Check that procmail, sendmail, and dovecot are all looking for the same mail folder location.

Also, what clients are you using? There are some weird things that happen if you use Pine with this configuration...

Thanks for the reply. You are right and I was so tired I think I missed it at first. With spamassassin working and individual user .procmailrc, there was a Default Mailbox setting (in each .procmailrc) which pointed to the wrong place (ie ~/mail). Simply commented it out and everything works fine.

BUT - what I don't understand is that it worked for 5 hours sending mail to /var/spool/mail/username and then just switched. Possibly some conflict and it certainly happened after a rebuild of sendmail.

Anyway, I'm just glad it's now working.

Good luck with yours!

Thanks. Mine is going well, I have incoming down, now I just want to set it up so that authenticated remote users can send email to the outside world through my server... I'll probably use postfix and Cyrus SASL.