Unable to scan $Home/Maildir

[webmigit]

ok, here's all the little interesting things..

I have a domain, lets call it apples.com.. I'm contract-bound not to reveal the actual domain.

Anyway this domain has about ten email addresses.. And all of them work, except one, I cannot check it because it tells me "-ERR: Unable to scan $Home/Maildir".

I'm on a redhat server with a weak file administration console but I found /home/vpopmail/domains/

And here's the weird thing, every other domain I can think of is there, but not apples.com.

So you'd think that it would error checking the other email addresses, or at least I would, but no. The other email addresses are working fine.. as I understand it, it would be:

/home/vpopmail/domains/apples.com/info/Maildir ?

Any help is appreciated,
Tony Hicks

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[thedaver]

First, it is customary to use the deliberately set aside domain of "example.com" for such hypothetical examples.... no biggie.

Yes, your vpopmail install probably installed into /home/vpopmail and ./domains/apples.com/username/Maildir is the customary install point.

HOWEVER, it is possible to install vpopmail with alternative home directories by domain, although I cannot profess any expertise in doing so - never needed/wanted to.

You may also simply have a file permissions problem on the specific user in question... mistakenly chowned to root.root or something so that vpopmail cannot legally read from that user's folder.

If you determine that permissions are OK, I would recommend scanning the entire filesystem to see if you can identify if the installed domain resides in a less obvious place.

cd /
find -iname apples.com

This *should* find the directory you found in /home/vpopmail/domains/apples.com and it *may* find the directory elsewhere, which may explain why things are odd.

IT IS also possible that


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[webmigit]

Found where the directory is at , and its only in one place so I don't know what's going on...

its in a folder called 0 in the domains folder mentioned above,

...domains/0/apples.com

I've checked, rechecked and checked again for permissions and they all appear the same..

any idea?

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[thedaver]

Is every other domain under /domains/ directly and apples.com is under /domains/0/ ?????

That would qualify as entirely bizzare.

Did you recompile vpopmail recently???

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[webmigit]

Some domains are under ../ and some under ../0/

Recompile? I didn't even install it and I don't know who did, either the last programmer (fired) or the server guys (hardly helpful).

I need to fix this user though.. any ideas?

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