On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 05:21:19PM -0400, Brian Sweeney wrote:
>
> 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:
Should this be port 25 or something else? Like 110 for pop3 perhaps?
> +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
>
>
>
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