At 12:10 PM +0000 12/20/00, James wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I should start this (my first post) with a big howdy doo dee to everyone.
>
> I have just installed a new machine to act a as mailsever,
> replacing one that continually tripped itself over. I had qpopper
> 3.0.2 running on that one fine. On the new box, I can't get qpopper
> to create the .pop file correctly. The exact error is:
>
> There has been an error transferring your mail. I said: PASS
> <shhhh! Don't tell anyone> and then the POP server
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create
> /var/spool/mail/.user.pop with uid 3965, gid 12. Change permissions.
The FAQ at <http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/faq.html#permissions>
explains how to correctly set the permissions.
>
> Now the weird part is that on the old server some of the e-mail
> account had a group id of '2000' and some were group 'root' both of
> them worked regardless. This time instead of having group of '2000'
> they have got 'unknown_' instead. The stranger part is that half of
> the e-mail accounts work and half of them don't. For example user1
> and user2 both have a group id of 'unknown_' and user1 can check
> his mail successfully but user2 gets the error message generated
> above.
I'm unclear if you are talking about the group membership of the user
ID or the group ownership of the spool file. The group membership of
the user ID should not affect Qpopper, because Qpopper, when it
assumes the user's identify and sets it UID to that of the user, sets
its group ID to the group owner of the spool directory, which should
be 'mail'. My guess is that group 12 is does not have proper access
to the spools on your system. Is this 'mail'?
>
> I am completely stumped here.....has anyone seen anything like this before?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated....
>
> James.
