At 2:31 PM -0400 4/13/01, Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded qpopper from 3.0fc1 to 4.0 on a FreeBSD box.
>
> I typed
>
> ./configure --enable-server-mode-group-exclude=wheel --enable-bulletins-path
> =/var/spool/bulls --enable-statistics --enable-uw-kludge
>
> so as to enable server mode for all users except those in the wheel group,
> enable bulletins, enable statistics and prevent users from downloading the
> "Do not delete this message..." thing from Univ. WA Was I correct in adding
> all of these options to ./configure with separated by a space?
Yes. You could also use a configuration file to set these, but
doing it at compile time is somewhat faster.
>
> I thought that, in server mode, .pop.username files were no longer created
> in /var/mail, but I still see .pop files being created. Am I wrong about
> this?
Yes. .user.pop files are always created. They serve two purposes:
they are a mutual exclusion lock to ensure there is only one POP
session per user at any one time, and they also are the temp drop
file. In server mode, these files serve the first purpose until
session end, when they may or may not be needed to update the spool
(depending on if the spool is "dirty").
Please see the Administrator's Guide for more details.
>
> Where are the stats written that --enable-statistics creates?
In the log or a file you specify at run-time. Please see the
Administrator's Guide for more details.
