Re: Help with in.pop3d
Benjamin T. White (ben@whitehouselocal.bgsm.edu) wrote:
: the linux box with POP3 clients on macs networked to the linux box. I seem to
: get every thing setup correctly but the remote POP clients give the error:
:
: I said PASS
:
: and the POP server said:
:
: -ERR cannot open mailbox /var/spool/mail/ben
: Permission denied.
:
: in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what
: gives? The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is
: delivered!!!!
I don't know about the standard in.pop3d daemon as I use qpopper but
this daemon changes the real user ID to that of the user checking mail
so I has no root priviledges.
Also, it is important to have write access to /var/spool/mail. To have this
this directory has to be set-gid mail:
drwxrwsr-x 3 root mail 2048 Jun 12 23:21 mail/
You should check the permissions of /var/spool/mail/ben and make
sure you are logging as ben when you telnet to port pop-3.
Good luck.
E.-
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