Squirrelmail not receiving new mail

[jerryk1234]

Hello,

    I'm using SM 1.4.15 - yesterday it stopped receiving new mail.  There is no error message.  New mail is coming into the system constantly, and I can read it with elm.   There are no obvious disk space issues:
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Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1            158128652  15301004 134795152  11% /
/dev/sda2            158128684   9707796 140388388   7% /var
/dev/sda3            150221600  34145232 108445496  24% /home
tmpfs                  1686072         0   1686072   0% /dev/shm
shm                    1686072         0   1686072   0% /dev/shm
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When I say "telnet localhost 143" there seems to be a working IMAP server:

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* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2004.357 at Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:22:12 -0700 (PDT)
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I reset the Linux box, no difference.

Anybody have a clue as to how to proceed further?
Thanks in advance,

                                          - Jerry Kaidor

[Fredrik Jervfors-4]

> I'm using SM 1.4.15 - yesterday it stopped receiving new mail.  There is
> no error message.  New mail is coming into the system constantly, and I
> can read it with elm.   There are no obvious disk space issues.

[---]

> When I say "telnet localhost 143" there seems to be a working IMAP server:
>
> ------------------ snip --------------------
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS
> AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2004.357 at Thu, 8 Oct 2009
> 07:22:12 -0700 (PDT)
> ------------------ endsnip ------------------
>
> I reset the Linux box, no difference.
>
> Anybody have a clue as to how to proceed further?

SquirrelMail doesn't receive mail - the local delivery agent (LDA)
transfers the mail from the SMTP server to the IMAP server. SquirrelMail
displays what the IMAP server has received.

When you read mail with Elm, where have you configured Elm to look? My
guess is that your Elm doesn't talk to the IMAP server at all but looks
directly somewhere on your file system (maybe the spool file). Check your
logs and also the mail queue in the SMTP server to see what's happening
with the mail.

Also, what happened yesterday? Software usually doesn't break on its own -
something was probably upgraded or reconfigured.

--
Fredrik Jervfors
The SquirrelMail Project
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[jerryk1234]

>
Also, what happened yesterday? Software usually doesn't break on its own -
something was probably upgraded or reconfigured.

**** Indeed.  Turns out I had set the sort order to "From".  Set it back to
"Date" and it works fine.  Duhhhhh.


                               - Jerry Kaidor