openwebmail un-welcome additional folders
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:23 pm
For the past few months, I have see some extra folders from Openwebmail:
I have been through three major directories for clues:
/export/home/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
/export/home/www/html/openwebmail
/export/home/cah/.openwebmail
The only possible cause is in /export/home/cah/.openwebmail/db. It had related named files in it. However, it is helpless removing those files.
Then, I found one file (/export/home/cah/Backup/file_permission_list, a backup file listing) that contains the above related files from the following command:
After looking into /export/home/cah/Backup/file_permission_list, I found
I checked these 5 files' contents and found they are testing files and apparently I was testing something on August 30th, 2010 and created these 5 files in /export/home/cah/mail. Openwebmail picks up all files from this location and shows them on the web page. After deleting these 5 files, Openwebmail no longer lists them on the web page.
Don't know why Openwebmail was designed this way to confuse people. It is a relief to finally fix the problem.
It is always very easy to fix problems when you know where the problem is.
- combined
- faq.html
- faq.txt
- sendmailheader
- testmail
I have been through three major directories for clues:
/export/home/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
/export/home/www/html/openwebmail
/export/home/cah/.openwebmail
The only possible cause is in /export/home/cah/.openwebmail/db. It had related named files in it. However, it is helpless removing those files.
Then, I found one file (/export/home/cah/Backup/file_permission_list, a backup file listing) that contains the above related files from the following command:
Code: Select all
/export/home/cah%find . -exec grep -il "sendmailheader" {} \;Code: Select all
/export/home/cah/mail:
total 14730
-rw-r--r-- 1 cah adm 6397 Aug 30 18:32 combined
-rw-r--r-- 1 cah adm 4605 Aug 30 18:31 faq.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 cah adm 6371 Aug 30 18:31 faq.txt
-rw------- 1 cah adm 0 Mar 16 2010 mail-trash
-rw------- 1 cah adm 0 Oct 28 18:12 saved-drafts
-rw------- 1 cah adm 0 Dec 3 18:16 saved-messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 cah adm 152 Aug 30 18:28 sendmailheader
-rw------- 1 cah adm 7504481 Dec 6 23:10 sent-mail
-rw------- 1 cah adm 0 Aug 5 2008 spam-mail
-rw-r--r-- 1 cah adm 26 Aug 30 18:32 testmail
-rw------- 1 cah adm 0 Aug 5 2008 virus-mail
Don't know why Openwebmail was designed this way to confuse people. It is a relief to finally fix the problem.
It is always very easy to fix problems when you know where the problem is.