Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!!
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:14, Martin Puaschitz wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Britten" <yugami@monochromatic.net>
> To: "Debian-User ML" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Pleez help with courier-POP !!!
>
> >you maildir is ~/Maildir if it already exists then it is created and you
> >have no problems, you need to make one for each user
>
> äähhmm..."you have no problems"....i have some:
>
> puaschitz:~# ps ax | grep pop
> 2857 ? S 0:00
> /usr/sbin/couriertcpd -pid=/var/run/courier/pop3d.pid -stderrlogger=/usr/sbi
> n/courierlogger -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup -addres
> s=0 110 /usr/lib/courier/courier/courierpop3login
> /usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemon /usr/lib/courier/courier/courierpop3d
> /Maildir
> 2860 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger courierpop3login
> 2862 pts/0 S 0:00 grep pop
> puaschitz:~#
> puaschitz:~#
> puaschitz:~#
> puaschitz:~# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Hello there.
> USER martin
> +OK Password required.
> PASS ****
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> see? Martin
What I did to get this working was:
Make a /var/spool/maildirs
then run makemaildir for each user you want to have access ie for me it
was hmike, make sure you are the actual user when you make the folder
for less permission headaches.
Symlink in the users home directory Maildir to
/var/spool/maildirs/username.
Make sure you edit your script back to use Maildir instead of ".". If
you use . it's looking for the maildir to exist in the users home
directory which it probably doesn't.
I'm annoyed by courier's handling of opening the maildir, I've looked at
how it's invoked in the /etc/init.d/courier-imap script for example and
it looks pretty convoluted.
The init.d script runs:
/usr/bin/env - /bin/sh -c " . /etc/courier/imapd ; \
IMAP_STARTTLS=$IMAPDSTARTTLS ; export IMAP_STARTTLS ; \
`sed -n '/^#/d;/=/p' </etc/courier/imapd | \
sed 's/=.*//;s/^/export /;s/$/;/'`
$TCPD -address=$ADDRESS \
-stderrlogger=${prefix}/sbin/courierlogger \
-maxprocs=$MAXDAEMONS -maxperip=$MAXPERIP \
-pid=$PIDFILE $TCPDOPTS \
$PORT ${prefix}/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin
$AUTHMODULELIST \
/usr/bin/imapd Maildir"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>From the man page:
The last daisy-chained command is imapd, which is the
actual IMAP server, which is started from the logged-in
account's home directory. The sole argument to imapd is
the pathname to the default IMAP mailbox, which is usually
Some authentication modules are capable of specifying a
different filename, by setting the MAILDIR environment
variable.
Right after "which is usually" it seems like something is missing to
me. Anyways. Though I'm using imap I'm pretty sure it's the same basic
principles.
--mike
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