From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 22 17:18:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00752 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.ny.otec.com (bright.ny.otec.com [209.3.16.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00705 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.ny.otec.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29074; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:17:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.ny.otec.com: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:17:05 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.ny.otec.com To: Evren Yurtesen cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: - pop3 - URGENT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this really shouldn't be on the -hackers list, anyhow what you should do then is download the latest version of POPPER and READ some of the documentation. i'm quite sure it's configurable. using $HOME won't work anyhow, because the pop3 deamon isn't running under the user context. $HOME would equate to root most likely... BE CAREFUL!!!! i'm quite confused, can't you just grok the line where it finds out which file to deliver it to and use sprintf carefully? something like i'm expecting "user" to be the username: sprintf(file,"/usr/home/%s/Mailbox",user); whereas it's prolly something along the lines of: (change to above) strcat(something, something.... ) -Alfred On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > hello > I do not have any nfs partitions yet, > I have arranged procmail to deliver mail to users home directories > but I am not able to set pop3 daemon to take that mail from > there... > I have found some mails on the web that redhat is able to do it > with the latest rpm of popper or something like that... > should I install redhat? > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:41:33AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > > > > hello, > > > here I have a serious problem!!! > > > I have moved all users' mail boxes to their home directories > > > like $HOME/mail > > > now I am not able to find a pop3 daemon which may read them > > > from there! > > > how may I find a pop3 which does this? or how may I modify > > > an existing pop3 daemon? > > > > > > please help! > > > > > > thank you > > > > This is a TRICKY thing to do correctly, particularly if the home directories > > are mounted via NFS. > > > > BE CAREFUL! > > > > - > > -- > > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin > > http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV > > | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! > > Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS > > Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message