> In summary the rest of your setup is putting mail into /var/spool/mail/ but > qpopper is checking from the /var/spool/mail/pop/ directory. Using set > spool-dir=/var/spool/mail does not override this (though it should - did > you ps ax | grep inetd and then kill -HUP <pid> the process identity shown > ?) >
FYI, I miss typed the directories Qpopper created upon install. They are /var/spool/pop and popbull not /var/spool/mail/pop and popbull. Although that probably makes little difference. After I changed the inetd.conf file I did the following: $ /etc/init.d/inetd reload Reloading internet superserver: inetd. Isn't this achieving the same thing as killing the process then restarting it? > If restarting inetd does not work can you either a) re-compile qpopper to > deliver to /var/spool/mail Like I said I have installed a binary copy of Qpopper. I don't have the source. > or b) change Procmail etc to deliver to /var/spool/mail/pop ? Well, like I said I already have tried coping my mailbox file into the /pop directory and it still tells me no messages even though I know for a fact there are. In fact, the same file in my /mail directory causes the following to appear above my command prompt: "you have mail in /var/spool/mail/hoffy" This message stays there until I use mutt to read the new mail. I copied the exact same file before using mutt into the /pop directory then tried to telnet Qpopper and it tells me there are zero messages. This to me seems very odd. > (Incidentally copying your mailbox to /var/spool/mail/pop should also have > worked. Out of interest doing cp -a or checking permissions carefully > would probably solve this [academic] point.) If that temp file .hoffy.pop shows up shouldn't that mean that directory is fine as far as owner/permissions is concerned? Also when I copy the mailbox file into that directory its ownership/permissions are: owner - hoffy group - staff permissions - 0660. Could there a problem here? Heck, it is working for the procmail/postfix/mutt combo. Maybe Qpopper doesn't like those settings for that file?
