> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:11:09PM -0500, MountaiNet Tech Support
wrote:
> > Ok, I know I will get badgered and flamed over this one, but Im having
a
> > problem setting up Qmail to run for my POP3 server. Ive had no
problems
> > getting it to run up to this point. It delivers messages fine to
Mailbox
> > in any home directory. I changed the line in /var/qmail/rc from
Mailbox to
> > Maildir. It will deliver fine to a Maildir in any home directory now.
If
> > I run /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /home/username/Maildir it creates
that
> > directory fine. Inside of it i have cur, new, and tmp. It will not
> > deliver to this Maildir. When I try to check e-mail on port 110 I get
the
> > dreaded -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir message. I run tcpserver
with
> > the lines:
> Hmm... do you maildirmake as the user or as root? If as root, you'll
have to chown -R
> user /home/username/Maildir after that.
> qmail can't deliver if the maildir is owned by root, and neither can
qmail-pop3d read
> from it.
Possibly you have also the wrong permissions, try: chmod -R 700
/home/XYZ/Maildir
Regards
Stephan
