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Can't get emails in my mailboxes

Posted on April 18, 2014

Hello, I have Ubuntu 12.04 server in digital ocean with WebMin installed.

I was following this tutorial how to add emails and stuff to my server: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZc4CcauEn8

I had several problems regarding sendmail and mail configuration but managed to set mapping and all the other stuff. Email sending and everything looks to work, but after that when I visit Read user Mail no emails are in any of inboxes I’ve sent.

Before i was getting failed delivery notices, but now it get’s sent, but it doesn’t reach my box in webmin to be aviable. I can send emails and they are delivered, but they are not mapped into right inbox. What could be the problem in there?



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How are you accessing the users’ inboxes? Squirrel mail?

Via webMin read user email module.

Look in your postfix config and ensure that the mailbox_command is included. <br> <br>mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME <br> <br>Otherwise the email is going to be going to /var/mail which would explain why you are not seeing it in the users’s inboxes.

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