Hi, I'm running RH 6.1 and Qmail, however my Maildir and Maildir/* is owned
by user.group with permissions 0700 and I have no problems.
Regards
David Anso
Network Administrator (daveland.co.nz)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 8:49 AM
Subject: Qmail installation frustrations.....
>
> I am currently installing QMail on a RedHat 6.1 server, and am running
> into one wall after another. This is the current situation that I am
> running into...
>
> rc.sysinit is running the following command:
>
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup codon.com\
> /bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
> Which starts up the pop3 stuff. However, when I try and connect via
pop3,
> I get:
>
> '-ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir'
>
> Although the Maildir directory (and /tmp, /new, and /current) exist, are
> owned by the user/group, and are 755.
>
> It has been suggested to me that the culprit is that the supplied pop3
> package is unable to check shadow passwords, but that doesn't seem right
to
> me, I can't imagine anyone writing such a system. If anyone would care to
> help a poor, frustrated soul, I would appreciate it....
>
> steve
>
>
>
