Stewart,
You get the big reward for coming up with the solution to "most" of my
pop-3d problems. What I don't understand is this. If the Memphis RPM
automatically places in the directory /etc/rc3.d/ as K<n>qmail-pop3d.init
instead of S<a>qmail-pop3d.init, how is it that the Memphis install works on
any system? Is it random chance? For me the effect is clear. If I switch to
S, reboot, I can get my mail through Pop (from my windows computer on my
network using outlook). If I switch back to K, reboot, it fails. So your
solution clearly works, but why is it apparently not necessary on most
systems, since people do get the Memphis RPM to work without doing that.
Now, I have a wierder problem with Pop3, which I really don't understand. I
can get my mail fine now using outlook on a computer on my network using pop
(due to your solution). However, when I go to work and attempt to get my
mail, using the same settings in MS Outlook, I get a failure to connect to
the server!
The only difference is wether I am coming from the outside, or I'm using my
own network. Am I missing something?
Feel free to try to use pop3. My mail server is mail.cybergood.net (an
alias), username: guest, password: guest. Leave the messages on the server,
if you can.
It is vaguely possible that it works now. I have no way of knowing. Since I
got home from work, I've poured throught the emails and have deleted the
ypbind server rpm.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart Jeacocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 10:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: qmail-pop3d.init errors
>
>
> 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
>
>
