I had a weird problem today. At the office I run a Slack9.1 box as
mailserver. One customer called and complained that he could not get his
mail.

When I looked it up, it gave me an error message whenever I tried accessing
the mailbox:
root@xxxxx:/var/spool/mail# telnet localhost pop3
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK
user mybox
+OK
pass xxxxxxxx
-ERR
Connection closed by foreign host.

The /var/spool/mail showed a ~300MB box, which is big - but not _that_ big:
-rw-rw---- 1 mybox mail 333388272 Apr 14 17:39 mybox

Logfile says:
Apr 15 09:44:20 xxxxx popa3d[22785]: Authentication passed for mybox
Apr 15 09:44:20 xxxxx popa3d[22785]: Failed or refused to
load /var/spool/mail/mybox

There is enough disk space available, and I just cannot figure out what's
causing this. Anyone got any idea(s)?

Thanks
Jen

wrong password :> ???

Corvin wrote:

> wrong password :> ???

Nope, then it would say wrong password.

I doublechecked the password to be sure. The problem went away when i
copied /dev/zero onto the mailbox.

Jen

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hmm in that problem guy has symlinked mialbox directory,
and it was impossible to work.
but in your case I don't know maybe 300 MB is too big.
Backup directory, empty it and try to login. Or maybe something
is wrong with privledges?

???

regards,
Corvin

Jennifer Knoell wrote:


> There is enough disk space available, and I just cannot figure out what's
> causing this. Anyone got any idea(s)?

Do you impose disk quotas?

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Paul

Jennifer Knoell wrote:
> I had a weird problem today. At the office I run a Slack9.1 box as
> mailserver. One customer called and complained that he could not get
> his mail.
>
> When I looked it up, it gave me an error message whenever I tried
> accessing the mailbox:
> root@xxxxx:/var/spool/mail# telnet localhost pop3
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK
> user mybox
> +OK
> pass xxxxxxxx
> -ERR
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> The /var/spool/mail showed a ~300MB box, which is big - but not
> _that_ big: -rw-rw---- 1 mybox mail 333388272 Apr 14 17:39
> mybox
>
> Logfile says:
> Apr 15 09:44:20 xxxxx popa3d[22785]: Authentication passed for mybox
> Apr 15 09:44:20 xxxxx popa3d[22785]: Failed or refused to
> load /var/spool/mail/mybox
>
> There is enough disk space available, and I just cannot figure out
> what's causing this. Anyone got any idea(s)?

The mbox really is too big. I've run into the issue before with popa3d.
Save the thing somewhere, then > mybox and you'll get in just fine.