Why can't I read mail with the mail command?
(There's almost certainly a problem with the mail-stack-delivery configuration, either postfix or dovecot, or both, but I should still be able to at least read that there's no mail from the CLI.)
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ ls -l /var/mail
total 0
thufir@mordor:~$
much extraneous detail to follow:
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ swaks --to thufir@localhost
=== Trying localhost:25...
=== Connected to localhost.
<- 220 mordor.bounceme.net ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
-> EHLO mordor.bounceme.net
<- 250-mordor.bounceme.net
<- 250-PIPELINING
<- 250-SIZE 10240000
<- 250-VRFY
<- 250-ETRN
<- 250-STARTTLS
<- 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
<- 250-8BITMIME
<- 250 DSN
-> MAIL FROM:<thufir@mordor.bounceme.net>
<- 250 2.1.0 Ok
-> RCPT TO:<thufir@localhost>
<- 250 2.1.5 Ok
-> DATA
<- 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
-> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:01:02 -0800
-> To: thufir@localhost
-> From: thufir@mordor.bounceme.net
-> Subject: test Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:01:02 -0800
-> X-Mailer: swaks v20130209.0 jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
->
-> This is a test mailing
->
-> .
<- 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 305E2540242
-> QUIT
<- 221 2.0.0 Bye
=== Connection closed with remote host.
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ mail
Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/thufir: Permission denied
No mail for thufir
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ ll /var/mail/
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Oct 21 08:49 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 21 09:07 ../
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ sudo apt-get install mailutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mailutils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 145 not upgraded.
thufir@mordor:~$
the mail logs:
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ tail /var/log/mail.err
Feb 16 04:08:02 mordor postfix/sendmail[12090]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ tail /var/log/mail.log
Feb 16 04:59:42 mordor postfix/qmgr[17837]: 9717754023A: from=<thufir@mordor.bounceme.net>, size=475, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 16 04:59:42 mordor postfix/local[19239]: 9717754023A: to=<thufir@localhost>, relay=local, delay=0.28, delays=0.2/0/0/0.08, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: lda(thufir,)Error: Error reading configuration: stat(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. )
Feb 16 05:01:02 mordor postfix/smtpd[19234]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Feb 16 05:01:02 mordor postfix/smtpd[19234]: 305E2540242: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Feb 16 05:01:02 mordor postfix/cleanup[19238]: 305E2540242: message-id=<20160216130102.305E2540242@mordor.bounceme.net>
Feb 16 05:01:02 mordor postfix/smtpd[19234]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Feb 16 05:01:02 mordor postfix/qmgr[17837]: 305E2540242: from=<thufir@mordor.bounceme.net>, size=475, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 16 05:01:02 mordor postfix/local[19239]: 305E2540242: to=<thufir@localhost>, relay=local, delay=0.22, delays=0.15/0/0/0.08, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: lda(thufir,)Error: Error reading configuration: stat(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. )
Feb 16 05:05:49 mordor postfix/qmgr[17837]: 9717754023A: from=<thufir@mordor.bounceme.net>, size=475, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 16 05:05:49 mordor postfix/local[19491]: 9717754023A: to=<thufir@localhost>, relay=local, delay=367, delays=367/0.04/0/0.05, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: lda(thufir,)Error: Error reading configuration: stat(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. )
thufir@mordor:~$
For brevity, I won't include postconf output, but doveconf shows:
thufir@mordor:~$
thufir@mordor:~$ doveconf
# 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+)
doveconf: Fatal: open(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory
thufir@mordor:~$
I'd like to just purge the entire mail-stack-delivery package.
