On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Dean Staff wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2001, at 12:01, mick wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, mick wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, mick wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Sven Mueller wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:41:30 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Is there, or is there going to be, support for shadow password
> > > > > > systems?
> > > > >
> > > > > Huh? What has qmail (itself) got to do with passwords? Which
> > > > > program are you refering to? pop3d´s checkpasswd? There are
> > > > > numerous implementations for password checking, I´m sure there
> > > > > is at least one with shadow support.
> > > > >
> [...]
> > > >
> > > > cool, and yes I am using checkpassword. perhaps a recommendation
> > > > of the numerous implementations would help out.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is the error message my mail client returns:
> > > this user has no $HOME/Maildir
> > > please enter a new password
> > >
> >
> > Before I get the obvious!!!
> > Yes Maildir is present, and smtp does deliver messages into the new
> > subdirectory.
> >
>
> Hi Mick,
>
> I'd double check how you start pop3-d. In your previous post you
> showed your xinetd.conf (inetd ) line as the following...
>
> /sbin/tcpserver -c 200 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
> cheech.mtco.com
> /bin/chechpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Mailbox &
>
> Showing that you are using Mailbox for delivery, but in later
> messages you talk of Maildir delivery. These are two very different
> things.
>
> Mailbox appends each new message to the $HOME/Mailbox file, where as
> Maildir writes a single file for each new message to
> $HOME/Maildir/new.
>
> Try changing the xinetd.conf line to read Maildir instead of Mailbox.
>
> Just my two cents worth.
>
> Good Luck
> Dean
>
Thanks Dean. That was the step that was overlooked!
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Mick Dobra
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