Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:57:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nobody knows the answer? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980622145159.9597Y-100000@voyager.dreamhaven.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980622232550.8787A-100000@avrasya.ispro.net.tr>
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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> 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?
I ran into the same problem when I switched from Sendmail to Qmail, which
keeps user mailboxes in $HOME/Mailbox. Here's the solution:
1) Go to /usr/ports/mail/popper.
2) Do a make, but *not* make install.
3) Once make is done, go into the work/qpopper2.41beta1 directory (that's
my version, yours may be different) and make the following changes to
these files:
Makefile: Look for the line starting with O_DEFS and add
"-DHOMEDIRMAIL" onto the end of it.
pop_dropcopy.c: At approximately line 284, you should see a line that
reads this:
strncat(p->drop_name, "/.mail",sizeof(p->drop_name) - strlen(p->drop_name));
Change the ".mail" to "mail" (or, as in my case, "Mailbox").
4) While in that same directory, type "make", which will recompile the
changed version of pop_dropcopy.c.
5) Go back up 2 directories (cd ../..) and then do "make install".
You will now have a slightly hacked version of Qualcomm's QPopper, which
will work with your setup.
Hope that helps!
- Bryce
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