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Re: qpopper and qmail



> I'm having a little trouble getting qpopper_2.2-4 to work with
> qmail_1.01-1 on a bo system.
> 
> I rebuilt the qpopper package with the changes suggested in the
> qmail package for $HOME mailboxes.
> 
> The problems I am having have to do with inability to create
> and use the temporary maildrop file in /var/spool/pop.  I've
> tried messing with directory permissions and some other build
> definitions in the makefile and popper.h, but so far no luck.
> 
> I have a feeling this is some kind of setuid/setgid type
> problem, but I'm kind of ignorant about most of that stuff.

> I think I'll get this figured out eventually, but if anyone has
> already gotten qpopper to work with qmail and would be willing to
> share configuration information, I'd really appreciate it.

I run qmail on a bo system, together with qpopper and I also battled 
with this.

I have the following in my /var/spool directory:

drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 Nov 19 16:28 mail
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 Nov 19 16:28 pop

Only qpopper uses this.  I think the spool files go in one directory 
and the lock files in the other.  Qmail of course writes all mail 
and locking into the user's home directory.  I installed the 
qpopper*.deb file first and then replaced the binary with the patched 
one.

You might have to create the mail directory if you are not 
converting from sendmail or smail.

Once you have used qmail you will never look at anything else ...


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