Re: POP3 with Qmail

[wtopa@ix.netcom.com]

	Subject: POP3 with Qmail
	Date: Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 01:21:42PM +0200

In reply to:Pasi Kärkkäinen

Quoting Pasi Kärkkäinen(pk@joroinen.fi):
> 
> Hi! 
> I've installed Qmail 1.01 and it works fine. My users want to read their
> mail via POP3 and via pine in shell. So I need to find solution to this
> problem. 
> 
> If I use Qmail's POP3 daemon, it supports only Maildirs and Pine
> does NOT support maildirs? Is there some patch for pine to make it support
> maildirs?
> 

 Check out mutt. It handles both mbox and Maildirs.  There was a patch
mentioned on that list for pine.


> If I deliver mail to homedirectory Mailboxes, pine works fine but where
> can I find *working* POP3 daemon that can read mail from homedirectory
> mailboxes? Qpopper should can do it, but If I compile it with
> -DHOMEDIRMAIL (or something like that) it works, but it still requires
> /var/spool/mail (it stores lock-files there). And I needed to do some
> other code-hacking before Qpopper worked, so Is there "official" version
> of some POP3-daemon that supports homedirectory mailboxes?
> 

  Ask this question on the qmail list. The Qmail Guru's are all there!
  see www.qmail.org.
 
> 
> -Pasi Karkkainen       
> 
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