I am trying to install postfix on Ubuntu with bellow tutorial
but while Initialize the Maildir and Test the Client i am getting below error
root@ubuntu-shm:~# ls -R ~/Maildir ls: cannot access ‘/root/Maildir’: No such file or directory
I havent created non root user.
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I have got same issue.
sann@ububtu16Lamp:~# echo ‘init’ | mail -s ‘init’ -Snorecord sann Can’t canonicalize “/sann/Maildir” sann@ububtu16Lamp:~# ls -R ~/Maildir ls: cannot access ‘/sann/Maildir’: No such file or directory
I fixed this by opening my postfix main.cf file:
sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
and adding the following to the end of the file:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
and restarting postfix.
sudo /etc/init.d/postfix reload
sudo systemctl restart postfix
At that point running
echo 'init' | mail -s 'init' -Snorecord my_username
returned
Can't canonicalize "/home/my_username/Maildir"
but when I ran
ls -R ~/Maildir
The mail directory was there!! Success!! Hope this helps future mail pioneers. ~ Gifford
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