Dunno what's going on.... qpopper's working now.... there's another problem... I have configured Exim MTA to deliver mail to users home directory ($HOME/Mailbox)...Accordingly I have added set home-dir-mail = Mailbox to /etc/qpopper.config.... I also added -d to in.qpopper commandline.... after restarting xinetd, when I examined /var/log/maillog I found out that qpopper is still reading from the /var/spool/mail... Neither Outlook nor Eudora can pick up any POP mail.....
Dec 26 05:16:06 gateway in.qpopper[3169]: +OK ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [popper.c:242] Dec 26 05:16:06 gateway in.qpopper[3169]: Qpopper ready for input from (null)at petersan [192.168.1.100] [popper.c:281] Dec 26 05:16:06 gateway in.qpopper[3169]: Received (19): "USER peter.santiago" [pop_get_command.c:105] Dec 26 05:16:06 gateway in.qpopper[3169]: home (26): '/home/users/peter.santiago' [pop_user.c:209] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: No such group: "purgemail" [check_gr oup.c:37] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: genpath Spool (1) [hash: 0; home: NU LL] for user peter.santiago returning /var/spool/mail/peter.santiago [genpath. c:229] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: genpath .pop (2) [hash: 0; home: NUL L] for user peter.santiago returning /tmp/.peter.santiago.pop [genpath.c:229] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: Temporary maildrop name: '/tmp/.pete r.santiago.pop' [pop_dropcopy.c:1255] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: Opened Bulletin database '/var/spool /mail/bulletins/bulldb' (checking user 'peter.santiago') [pop_dropcopy.c:1301] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: uid = 503, gid = 12, euid = 503, egi d = 12 [pop_dropcopy.c:1485] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: Opened temp drop /tmp/.peter.santiag o.pop (5) [pop_dropcopy.c:1501] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: Set p->drop to stream for 5 [pop_dro pcopy.c:1585] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: Getting mail lock [pop_dropcopy.c:16 25] Dec 26 05:32:54 gateway in.qpopper[3351]: successfully opened (exclusive) lock /var/spool/mail/peter.santiago.lock [maillock.c:477]
