Your permissions for your Maildir appear to be incorrect.
Should read:
drwx------ 5 peter users 1024 Mar 28 19:51 Maildir/
Always best (and easiest) to create Maildirs with the supplied
maildirmake command.
(/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake by default.)
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Mahlon Smith
InternetCDS
http://www.internetcds.com
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Peter Gradwell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just restarted my mail server, (having not got the origional pop3d boot up
>script)
>
> using this line in /etc/inetd.conf
>
> pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ice.gradwell.com
>/bin/checkpassword
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
>
> (all one line)
>
> and when I try a pop3 session, I get an
> -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
>
> error:
>
> [peter@tea peter]$ telnet ice.gradwell.com 110
> Trying 194.205.225.96...
> Connected to ice.gradwell.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <830.927664332@/bin/checkpassword>
> USER peter
> +OK
> PASS pass
> -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
> however, it does exist:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 5 peter users 1024 Mar 28 19:51 Maildir/
>
> peter@ice:~$ ls -al Maildir
> total 14
> drwxr-xr-x 5 peter users 1024 Mar 28 19:51 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 45 peter users 4096 May 25 21:03 ../
> drwx------ 2 peter users 6144 May 18 12:52 cur/
> drwx------ 2 peter users 2048 May 25 21:09 new/
> drwx------ 2 peter users 1024 May 25 21:09 tmp/
>
> can some one pass me a clue please?
>
> thanks
>
> peter.
>
> --
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>
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>
