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From: Mike Harshbarger <mharsh@fsr.net>
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Subject: Leftover qpopper drop files
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I've recently moved my mail server from a Solaris x86 platform over to
FreeBSD. I *love* the performance improvement, but I've run into an
irritating qpopper problem. As a friend put it: "Oh, you've got the new
qpopperdropper!" :)


I've ran qpopper 2.53 on both systems. Qpopper creates a temporary drop
file named /var/mail/.username.pop. On Solaris, this file was deleted
after use. They hang around in FreeBSD. If a new customer happens to pick
the same username as a old, deleted account, they'll get this error when
they try to pop their mail:

-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?

And then I get to jump in and either delete or chown the leftover
temporary drop file.


I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, or if I've caused it
with a compile-time option or an ignorant filesystem choice. Right now,
/var/mail is a symlink pointing at a directory in a ccd array mounted with
the 'noatime' option. (noatime is a holdover when I was experimenting with
inn on this ccd, and I'm thinking I should get rid of it)


It'd be easy for me to cron a script that would chown the temporary files
to the correct userid or simply delete ancient ones, but I don't want to
if I can fix this problem another way. 


Thanks in advance,

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| __/ __|_ _|   Mike Harshbarger, First Step Internet
| _|\__ \| |       System & Network Administrator
|_| |___/___|     (208) 882-8869  /  1-888-676-6377


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