Silly courier-pop3d question

whit · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:31 am Post subject: Silly courier-pop3d question

I've just had to switch mail to my backup, which is Gentoo of course (unlike the failed primary server, which was a mutated Red Hat) and am wondering (quite late at night) why I can't get courier to POP.

The error I get in mail.log is:

Jul 21 01:55:38 free pop3d: LOGIN, user=whit, ip=[xxx.xx.xxx.xx]
Jul 21 01:55:38 free pop3d: pop3d: No such file or directory
Jul 21 01:55:41 free pop3d: LOGOUT, user=whit, ip=[xxx.xx.xxx.xx], top=0, retr=0

(The box is named is "free.") What does the "pop3d: pop3d:" line mean? What file is being looked for where?

In /etc/courier-imap/pop3d I have at the end:

#Hardwire a value for ${MAILDIR}
#MAILDIR=.maildir
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/

- Reflecting my system being set up for mbox, not .maildir style mail. There is new mail in /var/spool/mail/whit - obviously I haven't succeeded in setting courier to look there. What's the (doubtlessly simple) trick? Getting rid of that last line and restarting isn't it, either.

Thanks!

Chris W · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:30 am Post subject:

AFAICT, although Courier can deliver to MBOXes, Courier imapd/pop3d only supports Maildirs.

UW Imapd handles MBOXes.
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whit · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:59 pm Post subject: Thanks