Some people seem to have had problems getting the qmail-pop3d daemon to
work using the qmail-pop3d.init script which the qmail srpm on
www.qmail.org installs. I have successfully got this to work as follows
First off you must install the checkpassword rpm
Now you have to make qmail-pop3d run at boot
Go to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ (or whatever runlevel you normally boot into)
You should find that in this directory there is a link called
K<n>qmail-pop3d.init , where <n> is a two digit number
Now look for the link S<N>qmail.init, where <N> is another two digit
number
Rename K<n>qmail-pop3d.init to S<a>qmail-pop3d.init , where <a> is any
two digit number you like as long as it is larger than <N>
Restart or equivalent
To summarize the rpm installs symbolic links to the qmail-pop3d.init
script in the rc.d subdirectories. However it gives them numbers lower
than the qmail.init script. This means that the pop3d script executes
before the rest of qmail. Since it depends on other parts of the qmail
system it fails.
I am relatively new to Linux so any comments are welcome
Stewart
