Re: Qmail -ERR this users has no $HOME/Maildir

[Dan Peterson]

On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:10:38AM -0600, New Hope Hostmaster wrote:
 I've finally got the checkpasswd authorization to work, but not it's not
 finding the $Home/Maildir.
 
 I have put a Maildir in all the placing I think it may look, using the
 qmail-makedir whatever command, but still no luck.
 
 So, how do I change/find out the value of $HOME, so I can change it, or make
 the necessary directories?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Peter Janett

how are you running qmail-popup in inetd.conf? when you telnet to the POP
port, does it say X.XX@checkpassword? if so, you might be having
the same problem i was having. here's my line from inetd.conf:

pop-3   stream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/qmail-popup hostname checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir

(this should be all on one line)

in the man page, it just says to use qmail-popup hostname ... in
inetd.conf, but that gave me the XX.X@checkpassword weirdness and
the $HOME/Maildir error. i decided to try putting /usr/sbin/tcpd in front of
it, and all of my problems went away. it now shows .X@hostname and
works wonderfully. :) now only if it did some logging...

HTH,
-dan

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RE: Qmail -ERR this users has no $HOME/Maildir

[Dan Poynor]

You might need to check the permissions of each Maildir.

If a Maildir is in the UserA's home but is owned by UserB then checkpasswd
can't find the UserA Maildir.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
DAN

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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 1999 10:11 AM
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Subject: Qmail -ERR this users has no $HOME/Maildir


I've finally got the checkpasswd authorization to work, but not it's not
finding the $Home/Maildir.

I have put a Maildir in all the placing I think it may look, using the
qmail-makedir whatever command, but still no luck.

So, how do I change/find out the value of $HOME, so I can change it, or make
the necessary directories?

Thanks,

Peter Janett