I know other people have had the same problem so I am posting my fix for
this. I have modified qpopper to place the .pop and .cache files in the
user's home directory when home-dir-mail is defined. Use at your own risk. 

#diff qpopper4.0.5.patched/popper/genpath.c
qpopper4.0.5.patched/popper/genpath.c
136,139c136
<           if ( p->pHome_dir_mail != NULL )
<               len1 = strlcpy( pszDrop, pw->pw_dir,    iDropLen );
<           else
<               len1 = strlcpy ( pszDrop, p->pCfg_temp_dir, iDropLen );
---
>             len1 = strlcpy ( pszDrop, p->pCfg_temp_dir, iDropLen );
149,152c146
<           if ( p->pHome_dir_mail != NULL )
<               len1 = strlcpy( pszDrop, pw->pw_dir,    iDropLen );
<           else
<               len1 = strlcpy ( pszDrop, p->pCfg_cache_dir, iDropLen );
---
>             len1 = strlcpy ( pszDrop, p->pCfg_cache_dir, iDropLen );
#

Brad

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