Hi All,

I have a client with an machine which has a very old Ubuntu operating system with many web applications in it. This server has post fix installed and procmail but not dovecot. I need to access admin@myDomain.com and read an email and copy a link to proceed with a validation of a certificate. While I can access the admin mail with the mail command, and send and receive mail which I send from gmail, I cannot receive the validation email sent from the cert authority, presumably because it is marked as junk or spam e-mail.

Since this email is possibly marked as junk it probably goes to the junk folder. The problem is that I don’t know where the junk mail folder is located and how to access it. I have been looking in several places but it is not there, which makes me wonder the following 3 questions

1) If the mail arrived and it is in the spam folder, where is the spam folder located and how to access it?
2) if it can simply not have arrived when marked as junk ?
3) and in that case I would like to know what do I have to do to create it?

Thank you very much for the help


bluetxxth

If the email is being moved, it's probably being done by procmail. The relevant ~/.procmailrc should both define the rules for the move and identify the target -- or show that the mail is being trashed, if that's the case.
There may also be a log of the procmail activity. That would also be defined in the ~/.procmailrc

Hi Again,

Thank you for the help, it turns out that there was no mailbox configured at all! I needed this for the activation of a cert. This is probably not very orthodox, but in order to avoid creating another user on the server I made the mail arriving to administrator or to webmaster, which did not have an mailbox configured, to an already existing user (user4) by modifying the virtual file i.e. /etc/postfix/vmailbox and reload postfix.


user1@mydomain.com user1
user2@mydomain.com user2
user3@mydomain.com user3
user4@mydomain.com user4 <--

webmaster@mydomain.com user4 <--
administrator@mydomain.com user4 <--

I hope this helps someone

Regards / Bluetxxth