Hy there palls i'm new to qmail, and you can find this stupid, but anyway there it goes. I've sucessfuly installed qmail. it is running properly, and i can send mail trough the host. but when i try to receive mail (pop3) the problems begin. when i initialize the qmail-pop3d it gives me the following message: [root@localhost]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init start hard error Starting qmail-pop3d...done the process is there, running. but when i try to receive mail via netscape (pop3 requisition) the program returns the following: "this user has no $HOME/Maildir" and while reading the INSTALL.maildir doc, i've found something interesting. the doc says "The system administrator can set up Maildir as the default for everybody by creating a maildir in the user home directory and replacing ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc. Here's how to set up qmail to use maildir for your incoming mail: [root@localhost]# maildirmake /home/user/Maildir [root@localhost]# echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail [root@localhost]# chown -R user.user /home/user/Maildir [root@localhost]# chmod -R 755 /home/user/Maildir I do ask: 1) for the proper working of qmail-pop3d shouldn't I edit /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc instead of /var/qmail/rc ? [root@localhost]# cat /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc #Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default ./Mailbox [root@localhost]# cat /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail 2) How can i correctly setup qmail-pop3d using Maildir format? 3) What's the difference between Maildir and mbox format? Wich one is better? Thanks in advance Gustavo Schroeder System Administrator
