From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 20:52:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A5C15A05 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craigc@nwlink.com) Received: from craigc (ip133.gte8.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.237.133]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA08716 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <029001bf089c$62127380$0201010a@fuzzer.com> From: "Craig Critchley" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: POP3 server problems Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:57:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to set up a POP3 server for Windows clients to pick mail up with from a machine running FreeBSD 3.2 release, and I seem to be having trouble. I've tried, all built from ports with no modifications: cucipop - adds a message, subject: "DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE...", then the client reports the error "-ERR Error locking your mailbox" every time the client checks mail. I see a few mentions of this error in the archives, but found no solution. This seems to be everybody's favorite? popper - client pops up the password dialog, and if I cancel it (the password is correct), indicates that the password was rejected and reports the error "-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?" Unfortunately, it does not say what file. A check of the archives suggests it is trying to create a temporary file in /var/mail which is owned by root and not world-writable. Is it really wise to change permissions on this directory? It sounds from the discussions I found in the archives I don't want popper anyway... ipop3d (from the imap-uw port, but I'm not actually running imapd itself) - this works, but adds two lines to the maillog for every check a client makes, even if the mailbox is empty. there doesn't seem to be much of a man page, and it lists no switches for tweaking any logging options. I suppose I'll use whatever server works, but since Outlook Express polls the server every ten minutes by default ipop3d will quickly clog up the logs... Any suggestions? Thanks, ...Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message