Hi Jim,
> When I send the message it looks like it works, it doesn't error out or
> anything. But when I telnet into my linux box, I can't find the email
> anywhere.
How are you telnetting into your box?
via
telnet yourbox
or via
telnet yourbox 110
> I had a heck of a time shuffling thru the directions/installation documents.
> It didn't seem very clear, but it was probably me.
Maybe you shou�d have tried Dave Sills "Life with qmail". Look for it on
the qmail homepage.
> there is nothing in my /var/qmail/users directory. From what I could make
> out, there should be an assign file in there but I'm not clear on the
> format.
the format is:
=aliasname:user_name:UID:GID:user/directory/:::
.
the dot has to be in the last line of your file!
One of the expired entries in my server is for example:
=Andreas.Bitterich:ABitterich:1243:102:/wwwroot/gun/ABitterich:::
> Another thing, my main user account
> has 2 uppercase letters, so I tried using the -u option, but nothing again.
As you have read correctly you have to have your main users in the
users/assign file if they have uppercase letters in it.
> I wasn't sure if I need the POP3 thing, but I installed it anyways since I
> notice the properties on my windows mail server account has POP indicated.
> I put in my inetd too, just like the documentation said.
But there seems to be one of your problems.
> Before I installed the POP3, I created a dummy account (flapjack) and sent
> some mail to it thru the win workstation. It showed up in the ~/Maildir/new
> dir. I was excited for a moment. I tried another and it worked too.
Try to get to that point again. Thin about everything you did after that
worked.
> Here is the bottom portion of my /var/logs/messages file:
> Sep 19 22:26:58 alita gnu-pop3d[511]: Session ended for user: flapjack
^^^^^^^^^^
Here is your problem. gnu-pop3d does not know anything about Maildirs.
You need to take the pop3-server provided with the qmail-package.
Have at look at the qmail-docu on how to install it. If you can't figure
it out I can look in my archives if I have an old configuration of mine.
> Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.977842 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.987402 delivery 28: deferral:
> Uh-oh:_home
> _directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/
And here we have another problem. See to it that you have the following
rights with the home-directory of the user you tried to send mail to.
ls -lad ~flapjack
drwxr-xr-x
you get them by
chown 755 ~flapjack
Tell me wether it worked or not.
Ciao,
Cyril
