Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:00:08 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> To: rewt@i-Plus.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oops... nevermind what I said about qpopper Message-ID: <199702201700.LAA04642@base486.synet.net>
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From: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net> > A few days ago, I responded to a post asking how to get qpopper to > run on FreeBSD. One of the things I mentioned, was to change the > directories in popper.h. DO NOT DO THIS, YOU MAY LOOSE MAIL. > > Earlier tonight, I lost an untold amount of mail when my server > rebooted. Of course, in /etc/rc. /tmp is cleaned up. Nothing > survives... not even temporary mail files. Damn blanktime > thingie... grrr.... > > (Oh, it now seems that the easiest way to get qpopper to work, is to > 'chmod 1777 /var/mail' Are there any religious reasons why I don't > want to do this?) I've installed ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper/qpop2.2.tar.Z It's installed as: -rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 49152 Dec 13 17:03 /usr/local/libexec/popper with inetd.conf: pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper popper -s and from popper.h: #if !defined(OSDONE) && (defined(BSD) && ((BSD) >= 199103)) # define POP_MAILDIR "/var/mail" # define POP_DROP "/var/mail/.%s.pop" # define POP_TMPDROP "/var/mail/tmpXXXXXX" # define POP_TMPXMIT "/var/mail/xmitXXXXXX" # define MAIL_COMMAND "/usr/sbin/sendmail" # define OSDONE #endif Everything works fine. It runs as root, and has no problems with permissions. Perhaps I've missed something, but it works for me. Dave Bodenstab imdave@synet.net
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