[Wolves] Why isn't mail arriving - exim/dovecot

Wayne Morris waynelists at machx.co.uk
Wed Apr 28 23:57:18 UTC 2010


  On 28/04/2010 16:53, Wayne Morris wrote:
> Wayne Morris wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have an alias to my main email address - which has correctly diverted
>> mail arriving at 'training' to my address.
>> Decided to create a new user name with useradd, and have its own mailbox.
>> Now mail for training is on the system in /var/spool/mail/training
>> but trying to collect it using imap thunderbird  - nothing shown.
>>
>>
> Just in case I didn't make it clear, I deleted the entry in aliases and
> ran newaliases - so mail for training should and does seem
> to go into the spool for training. imap just doesn't see it.
>
> man.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves
I got there...creating a user doesn't create  a mail directory in home,  
once done it all works..




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