Hah! Someone here started to setup maildir as the default new user configuration--but didn't finish the job. So, our issue was maildir vs. mbox and the mystery is resolved. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth on list. Janina Tomas Kuliavas writes: > > Hi: > > > > I've seen similar issues described when I did my Google search, but > > didn't see a resolution. So, I've joined the list in hopes someone can > > help. > > > > We have squirrelmail-1.4.6-7 running over Apache 2.2.0-5 on a fully > > updated Fedora Core 5 system. We run our own sendmail for our several > > domains, spamassassin, clamav, procmail, etc, all without issues. > > > > We've had no issues with squirrelmail either--until yesterday. In fact, > > only one of our several dozen users is having a problem. The other folks > > are doing fine. > > > > The user having the problem is a new user we just added from scratch, > > using useradd. He's able to log on to squirrelmail, and he's able to > > send mail. He's able to access his sent folder. He just can't access his > > inbox. The message is "this folder is empty." But, it isn't empty, and > > other uas (like mutt) have no problem accessing the inbox. > > > > Just in case it might show me something, I copied my personal inbox over > > to this new user's inbox filename and chown'd the file. Same "this > > folder is empty" message--though squirrelmail has no problem showing me > > my inbox. > > > > So, I surmise it's not something about the file, or the permissions on > > the spool directory. > > > > Any help would be most gratefully appreciated. We love our squirrelmail > > here, and want our new colleague to get the same opinion. > > Please provide information about used imap server and mailbox format. > > If you use uw, make sure that there is no mbox file in user's home > directory and default_folder_prefix option is not set in user's > SquirrelMail preferences. Or at least that user has same > default_folder_prefix option value. > > > -- > Tomas > > > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines > List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
