Re: Courier-Imap

[Jamin W.Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:43:20 -0400
"Phillip Hofmeister" <plhofmei@zionlth.org> wrote:

> I installed Courier-Imap today so I could get SSL IMAP support.
> 
> It doesn't appear to work.  When I try to connect (with a standard
> mail client) it fails.  Upon sniffing the network one will see the
> following:
> 
> From Client: 1 LOGIN "user" "pass"
> From Server: * BYE  [ALERT] Fatal error: Maildir: No such file or
> directory
(snip)
> From what I can tell, the server cannot find the user's mailbox (which
> does exist in /var/spool/mail (which is a symlink to /var/mail))

The as the error states, there is no "Maildir" directory.  This is
directory structure that should be located in the users homedirectory
(~/Maildir/).  It should be made using "maildirmake.courier" which is part
of the "courier-base" package. 


-- 
Jamin W. Collins


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