Thanks for your response, Peter. > Can you send yourself a message and then read your mailbox > any way you choose (though obviously not with qpopper). Oh, yes. Like I said, I am using a dial-up account with an ISP and my mail messages addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are sent to and stored on it's machine. I easily found out that my ISP will also accept and store messages addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. where user1, user2, etc. are people on my local network. So I use Fetchmail on my machine to retrieve these messages from my ISP and I have Procmail set-up through Postfix to filter these messages into their appropriate mailboxes also on my machine. I read my own messages with mutt from /var/spool/mail/hoffy. I also have directories called /var/spool/mail/[user1],[user2],[etc] for those other valid and expected messages. I am trying to set up Qpopper on my machine to deliver those messages again but only locally this time to the users on my other local machines.
Am I explaining this very well? I don't know. So, my current mail spool is in the path /var/spool/mail/... I am trying to get Qpopper to use this path. When I installed Qpopper /var/spool/mail/pop and /var/spool/mail/popbull were created. I don't know what these directories are for. I do know that during a session with Qpopper it creates a temp file called .hoffy.pop in the /pop directory. It appears this directory is what Qpopper wants to use for its mail spool. > The second aspect is if mail does arrive where it should. Yes it does. I set-up Procmail to deliver to the /var/spool/mail/... path. > In that case then qpopper is either not running Qpopper is definently running because I can use the: "$ telnet myHostname pop3" command with no errors but also always zero messages which is the crux of my problem, here. > or looking in the wrong place. This I have a feeling is happening. I copy my mailbox file (/var/spool/ mail/hoffy) into /var/spool/pop expecting Qpopper to see it but it still tells me zero messages. > Checking for this will involve reviewing both configuration and log files. Debian's package management system(dpkg) installed Qpopper for me and no configuration file was created. It placed the line: "pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.qpopper" in my /etc/inetd.conf file. I created a config file and tried adding a "-f /path/to/config/file" to the end of the line. In the config file I put: "set spool-dir=/var/spool/mail" I am not getting any errors but Qpopper is still creating that temp file .hoffy.pop in the /var/spool/pop directory and showing zero messages. The log file is not showing anything useful unless you have other suggestions in which to use it. Thanks again.
