On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 02:16:22PM +1000, Peter Samuel wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Isaiah Chua wrote:
>
> > hi folks,
> >
> > I've installed qMail for my office server and it runs fine - delivers mails and
>all that jazz. However, I'm getting only external mails out, and internal mails to
>users' mailboxes seem to die. Using /var/qmail/bin/makemaildir, I created a Maildir
>for myself in my home dir /home/isaiah. Mails do go there, but when I try to check my
>emails using POP3, nothing comes in.
> >
> > I've got this line in my /etc/inetd.conf
> >
> > pop-3 stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
> >
> > Is that correct? Or should I use
>
> Totally incorrect. Uses qmaild as the user instead of root and doesn't
> have the correct arguments.
No, for pop3 you need to use root.
--Adam
