Thanks a ton, solar. Perfect. It runs now!
I presumed the Maildir patch should've done that, but ok. popa3d is fantastic software. I would update some documentation and package of it on alpine! Thanking you Sagar Acharya On 21 October 2023 7:59:53 pm IST, Solar Designer <so...@openwall.com> wrote: >On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 02:42:57PM +0530, Sagar Acharya wrote: >> Logs show, >> >> authentication passed >> Failed or refused to load /var/mail/foo >> >> But there is no foo in /var/mail >> I was expecting it to load mails from /home/foo/Maildir > >Looking at the code (popa3d-1.0.3 and popa3d-0.5.9-maildir-2.diff), I >see that the "Failed or refused to load" message with the mailbox path >can also appear when the actual load attempt was of a Maildir and not >mailbox. However, I also see that with that patch's default settings >it'd be trying to load the Maildir from under /var/mail. > >I think you need to change two settings in params.h: > >1. Undefine MAIL_SPOOL_PATH, such as by replacing this line: > >#define MAIL_SPOOL_PATH "/var/mail" > >with: > >#undef MAIL_SPOOL_PATH > >2. Change the mailbox file/directory name by editing this line: > >#define HOME_MAILBOX_NAME "Mailbox" > >to be: > >#define HOME_MAILBOX_NAME "Maildir" > >Does this help? > >Alexander
