hi,
first of all read life with qmail by dave sill (
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html )- really excelent.
qmail delivers mail into a users maildir if in the homedir of the user is a .qmail
file with the entry ./Maildir/
the maildir MUST be created with ~/qmail/bin/maildirmake ./Maildir
su to the user and it will have the correct permissions and owners (btw: as root you
may do a maildirmake and create a .qmail file
in /etc/skel and useradd will do the whole thing for you)
[root@localhost]# chmod -R 755 /home/user/Maildir
these permissions are extremely wrong! - or would you allow everyone to read your
mails?
with tcp-server and checkpassword the start of pop3d may look like:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup myhost.mydomain.org
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
| /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
the point is to give qmail-pop3d Maildir as a parameter so it knows where to look for
mails
hope that helps
;) a
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gustavo
> Schroeder
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Some troubles
>
>
> 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
>
