Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I installed qmail, and it works fine. I tried setting up the POP
> > server, and it's acting funny. When I connect it says "this user has
> > no $HOME/Maildir", which is false, since the user most definitely has
> > a Maildir.
>
> There's lots of reasons for it to fail; the Maildir isn't owned by the
> user, has incorrect permissions on the path leading to it, is named
> incorrectly, etc.
That's what I've seen in the mailing list archives, but doesn't seem
to be the problem here. Like I said, when I replaced the startup
command with the full path of an actual Maildir (/home/ianb/Maildir),
it was able to change into this directory and download the mail
successfully. When I traced the program, it was trying to look in
/root/Maildir (though it wasn't downloading root's mail).
> > I start the POP server like this:
> >
> > tcpserver -H -R -c100 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> > /bin/checkvpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d './Maildir' &
> >
> > I tried changing './Maildir' to '/home/ianb/Maildir' (the user I'm
> > connecting as), and it works! I started playing with strace and
> > putting little bits of code into qmail-pop3d.c and checkpassword.c to
> > figure out what's going on.
>
> This shouldn't matter. Your checkpassword replacement is supposed to
> set up $HOME, $USER, etc properly.
Exactly, but it doesn't seem to be doing so. Like I said,
checkpassword, checkvpw, and checklocalpwd all give the same results.
I don't know where to look next for the problem.
When I do a trace, I can't see what's going on inside these programs.
It gives a trace of qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d, but there's no
feedback from checkpassword. I haven't used strace before now, so
I might not be using it correctly.
Thanks,
Ian
