[MacTUG] Problem with nexus on our Xserve

[Richard Crispin]

Hi All
I am having problems using nexus on our XServe. Mail works fine but 
when you try to do forwarding or many of the other optional stuff I 
get errors. This has been true from the beginning but up until now I 
have not had time to try and tackle it. I did an IST problem report 
which was past to Paul McKone. The information is below. Anyone have 
a solution to this. I am assuming that Paul is correct. I do not know 
where the users mail files are saved and I being basically lazy am 
hoping someone can point me to the right stuff to find the answer. If 
I remember correctly XServe uses postfix rather than procmail but I 
am not sure.
Any help is appreciated.
Richard
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Hi Richard,

1) A lot of entries from the old list weren't moved to the new list.
The "determine server from my UWdir entry" does a better job on the 
new system than on the old, so explicit entries are really only 
needed for machines whose userids don't all appear in UWdir.  I can 
add one for sju if that's the case.

2) The setup assumes that configuration files should be written in 
the home directory associated with the login userid/server.  I've got 
an "exceptions" list that redirects the ftp request to a different 
machine where necessary.  If all users on sju are having this 
problem, then I'm guessing that the files should be written to 
another machine.  If only a few users are having this problem, I'd 
guess at quota or permissions.

I'd like to figure out what's going wrong, and fix it.  Is it new behaviour?

PDM

>>  Subject:        Problems with Nexus Mail
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------
>>  Both the old and new versions of NEXUS Mail do not work fully with the
>>  mailer we have running on our OSX Server. Both work for reading mail
>>  and sending mail. The following problems
>>  1) the new version does not have sju.uwaterloo.ca listed as an option.
>>  2) both versions generate the following errors when trying to make use
>>  of the forwarding and several of the other "Options"
>>  Message  couldn't save .procmailrc_forward: Unable to write VFS file
>>  ".procmailrc_forward".
>>
>>  Message  couldn't save .vacation.msg: Unable to write VFS file
>>  ".vacation.msg".
>>
>>  Message  couldn't save .procmailrc_custom: Unable to write VFS file
>>  ".procmailrc_custom".
>>
>>  Message  couldn't save .procmailrc: Unable to write VFS file
>>  ".procmailrc".
>>
>>  Error  There were 4 errors while saving.
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------

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Richard Crispin
Information Systems Admin   e-mail:rcrispin at sju.uwaterloo.ca
St. Jerome's University     phone:Days (519)884-8111 ext. 28260
290 Westmount Rd. N         FAX:(519)725-0015
Waterloo, Ont.  N2L 3G3
Canada
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