Date:  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:13:18 -0700
From:  "Bruce Timberlake" <brucetimberlake (at mark) gmail.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:06396] Re: bogus mail
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> > Is the home/.sites/28/site1/.users/29/lilian/mbox owned by
> > lilian:site1    ?
> >
> Yup .. it is, but it's not only this user ... I see it's a ln or
> symbolic link to /mail/saved-messages
> 58 bytes big.

The symlink was set up by openwebmail. I haven't figured out why they
want the saved-messages folder as the inbox.

I just (like 2 days ago) migrated a bunch of domains from a 550 to a
BQ box, then installed openwebmail. All the mbox symlinks on the BQ
box were wrong, as they are not part of the CMU "checklist" of site
renumberings to deal with; CMU treats them just as any other
symlink/file.

The first time inbound mail delivery is attempted, it fails, since the
mbox symlink points to a non-existent file. Sendmail (I think) renames
mbox to BOGUS.username.random and then recreates a new clean mbox file
to deliver the mail into.

We checked mail via openwebmail after the new mbox file was created
(not a symlink), and the symlink is not needed; openwebmail reads from
mbox just fine, saves into the folders in ~/mail just fine, etc.

So I did this command to purge all the other "bad" symlinks on the new
BQ server:

  cd /home/.users
  find . -name "mbox" -type l -exec rm {} \;

Now, whenever a new messages comes in for a user, the mbox file is
recreated and everybody is happy.