Two possiblities that I know of:
1) Did you use the maildirmake program to make the users Maildir directory?
If not, do so.
2) When you telnet to your host on port 25, does it say:
+OK <some_long_string_of_numbers@your_domain_name_here
or does it say something more like:
+OK <some_long_string_of_numbers@checkpasswd>
or
+OK <some_long_string_numbers@/bin/checkpasswd>
If it's one of the latter, your $HOST isn't defined correctly when you're
starting qmail-pop3d. On mine, I believe it was because I didn't have
reverse DNS running on my DNS server. I used the qmail-run RPM at
qmail.org, so the line I had to change was:
HOST=$($QMAILHOME/bin/hostname)
where $QMAILHOME for me is defined as /var/qmail. Before I changed it to
the above, it was some long line with /bin/hostname in it, but with another
app as well. Near as I can tell, it was getting my hostname, DNSing it,
then attempting to reverse DNS it and get the ip address. I assume this is
to ensure that DNS is working right when it starts? I don't know...
Hope this helps some...
-Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Issues with qmail pop3d and $HOME/Mailbox
I have been unable to find out why I cannot get past the error:
* ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have tried everything I have found on the docs page and FAQ and still
cannot figure out where I have gone wrong.
Please help before I pull out what little hair I have left.
Thanx,
Eric
