At 9:48 AM +0000 11/18/01, Rick Hoffman wrote:

>   > or looking in the wrong place. 
>  This I have a feeling is happening.  I copy my mailbox file (/var/spool/
>  mail/hoffy) into /var/spool/pop expecting Qpopper to see it but it still
>  tells me zero messages.

That seems very odd.

>
>>  Checking for this will involve reviewing both configuration and log files.
>  Debian's package management system(dpkg) installed Qpopper for me and no
>  configuration file was created.  It placed the line:
>  "pop-3       stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd 
>       /usr/sbin/in.qpopper"
>  in my /etc/inetd.conf file.

Which version of Qpopper?

>
>  I created a config file and tried adding a "-f /path/to/config/file" to the
>  end of the line.  In the config file I put:
>  "set spool-dir=/var/spool/mail"

Make sure you're using Qpopper 4.0.3.

Probably the best thing is to get a fresh copy of 4.0.3 and run 
'./configure' and 'make' yourself.  Then, if you still have any 
problems, you can enable debug tracing and see what's going on.

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