If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm?? the only time I have done that was for imap..
As far as pop3 goes, the normal imap rpm contains a perfectly good pop3 server that is widely used, well documented and easier to get working. (because you don't have to do anything other then enable it in /etc/xinetd.d ) As for fetchmail,,, do this for a test.. copy the .fetchmailrc to the root home directory and as root type: fetchmail (you might want to turn off or remove fetchmail-daemon first.) see if that gets your mail delivered properly.. if it doesn't, install and run fetchmailconf (fetchmailconf-6.1.0-1.1mdk on my mdk9 system) Then run "fetchmailconf" in a root terminal.... it will then all be pretty obvious what all the settings do its a nice pretty gui. once you have all that sorted, reinstall fetchmail-daemon and move your .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc and give that a shot. see how that does it for you.. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Friday, 18 July 2003 5:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3 On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:08:18 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > ok, so far I've got the server collecting mail from the ISP for a > > test account I set up. however, the mail did not go to > > /var/spool/mail/test0001, it went to /var/spool/mail/joehill. > > you created user test0001? Just checking :) (You also might try > logging in as test0001 in case there are certain files that get > created on first login, like a mail spool--just grasping here.) yep, and if I send a test mail with the fetchmailrc showing postmaster "test0001", it goes to /var/spool/mail/test0001. I've logged in as that user several times and even created an xfce4 session (niiiiiiiiiice...). As soon as I change postmaster to "postmaster" (default) or comment it out, the mail for test0001 goes to /var/spool/mail/postfix (?). > > > > Now, for the fetchmailrc, I thought the postmaster was the person > > responsible for the server, ie. the admin, so I put "joehill". > > > > I also thought that by putting 'here "test0001"' in the poll section > > that it would know to dump the mail in /var/spool/mail/test0001. > > I don't do a system-wide fetchmail, but my .fetchmailrc looks > something like this: > > poll pop-server.domain.com protocol POP3 user "email-handle" password > "password" is "localuser" here > > So I think you're on the right track. > God I hope so, I've sent so many test e-mails I'm getting the jitters here. > > Are you using IMAP or POP3? If it's IMAP of course you'll need to use > port 143. POP3, I want the users to download the mail to their local machines. Although, I did see this on the Courier docs which could complicate matters: "Courier's POP3 server only supports maildirs ($HOME/Maildir), it doesn't support mailbox files." I've signed up for their mailing list (I'm on like 30 of these freaking things now...) to get some clarification. I didn't think it would be this complicated. Thanks for all da wise guidance! > -- > Let us be utopian for a moment so that when we get realistic again it > is not that "realism" so useful to the Establishment in discouraging > action. -Howard Zinn Wow, the Zinn man, love it! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++++++++++++++++++++++ If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.
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