On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:11:09PM -0500, MountaiNet Tech Support wrote:
> Ok, I know I will get badgered and flamed over this one, but Im having a
> problem setting up Qmail to run for my POP3 server. Ive had no problems
> getting it to run up to this point. It delivers messages fine to Mailbox
> in any home directory. I changed the line in /var/qmail/rc from Mailbox to
> Maildir. It will deliver fine to a Maildir in any home directory now. If
> I run /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /home/username/Maildir it creates that
> directory fine. Inside of it i have cur, new, and tmp. It will not
> deliver to this Maildir. When I try to check e-mail on port 110 I get the
> dreaded -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir message. I run tcpserver with
> the lines:
Hmm... do you maildirmake as the user or as root? If as root, you'll have to chown -R
user /home/username/Maildir after that.
qmail can't deliver if the maildir is owned by root, and neither can qmail-pop3d read
from it.
Greetz, Peter.
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.| Peter van Dijk
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