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.
Something's just plain configured wrong. It sounds like qpopper does
not have permission to access/read the file. Possibly some incorrect
locking is going on with the /var/spool/mail file, possibly it's an
ownership problem, or I'm not sure what.
> 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)?
If it's working when you copy the file to .neil.pop that's
semi-accidental; you're simulating an error condition that qpopper
knows how to recover from. That doesn't seem it should have anything
to do with where it's looking for new mail.
Enable debugging and see what shows up in the log file; it should give
you a very verbose listing of what file it's looking at, when, and why.
-- Clifton
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