> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:57:33AM -0000, Neil R Porter wrote: > > I've got it all working to an extent. I'm using postfix > with qpopper > > v4 on linux. Postfix lands the incoming email into > > /var/spool/mail/username - that's fine. And qpopper is > setup to get > > mail from spool-dir = /var/spool/mail - again, seems fine. > However, > > even though there was a mail file in the dir called neil > qpopper was > > ignoring it and instead just returning as if no new mail. > It wasn't > > until I played around and tried renaming neil to .neil.pop that > > suddenly qpopper sent me all my mail and deleted the file. > > > > Now, my reading of the manual and config file is that > .user.pop is a > > temp spool dir, and if I have to ssh in to "mv neil > .neil.pop" every > > time I need to pop email, well that's silly. Question is, how do I > > get qpopper to use the filename neil (i.e. user) and not .neil.pop > > (i.e. .user.pop)? > > > > Thanks for any help you can give > > 'Qpopper' should do this automatically. Make sure that it > has enough permissions to do so. Is /var NFS-mounted?
What is NFS-mounted? It's just /var in ext2 linux disc. As for the permissions thing, well, I changed them to be chmod 777 neil and also changed the owner variously. The thing is, I find it difficult to see that this is the problem when (as I mentioned above) if I simply "cp neil .neil.pop" then qpopper works... i.e. permissions of ".neil.pop" are same as "neil". But, if, as you say, Qpopper should use "username" automatically, then it should be working, but it isn't. I'm still no closer to knowing how to make sure Qpopper is set to use "username" as the mail spool to use. Anyone else any ideas? Thanks Neil
