This is what we get in our logs when attempting to add a user and
receiving no <user> AND no .<user>.pop
(v2.52) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
Woody
Computer Technician
Security Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, greg wrote:
> First things first. It is my understanding, unless you have a special
> configuration, that sendmail does not generate the .pop files, and
> neither does adduser.
>
> The .<user>.pop files are usually temp lock files used by popper or
> qpopper as a means to lock the files so that there are no problems while
> users ae getting their email.
>
> Did you change your pop server? Did you change permissions on the
> directory the pop files reside? Are you running pop server as a specific
> user and not give that user access to the mailbox directory?
>
> I don't know if this is your exact problem or not, but it is a direction
> you can look to.
>
> On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Woody wrote:
>
> > In my earlier post I noted that I thought that sendmail was causing
> > problems with adding new users and how their .<user>.pop file was not
> > being created in /var/mail. Well it seems that after I replace the new
> > version, with the old, like it was, the prob is still there. I can't
> > figure it out. All of a sudden, these files are not being created when we
> > add new users, thus causing netscapes mailbox messenger and IE's Internet
> > Mail to report errors when you want to d/l your mail. Sure, you can send
> > it out, but you can't d/l any mail without that .pop file. This has
> > started happeneing at the same time I have upgraded sendmail.
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
> > Woody
> > Computer Technician
> > Security Consultant
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
>
