On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 08:25, Don Clouse wrote: > First, I'm completely new linux and qpopper. My objective is to make a > personal pop3 server run.
I've got one running on my home server and another at the office, both RH7.2. > My first question is: What directory should the downloaded files be place > in for decompression and loading? Try my RPM's at http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/SRPMS/. Rebuild with "rpm --rebuild qpopper-*.src.rpm" and install with "rpm -Uvh qpopper-*.i386.rpm". The source RPM includes the stock tarball plus some additional useful files for RH7.2. Note that you'll need the rpm-build package installed to rebuild SRPM's from source. > On my first attempt, I made a directory /root/temp and I see that after > installing Qpop I have a directory /root/temp/Qpopper with all the files in > it. Will this location have an adverse affect? Avoid being root unless you have to. When you rebuild packages from source code, be a regular unprivileged user, and only su to root to install the binaries. Otherwise a typo in a Makefile has more potential for scrambling your system. For instance, you could unpack and build the tarball in /home/don/projects/qpopper. > Also in the manual on page 9 there is an "IMPORTANT" reference "In the mail > spool directory, some systems have a symbolic links from /usr/mail to > /usr/spool/mail. Make sure you check this before install Qpopper." I don't > have these directories, and I not quite sure what the manual is telling me. Don't worry about it. RH puts mail in mbox format in /var/spool/mail. The configure script should find it there.
