From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 22:03:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1E716A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:03:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mxsf02.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf02.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF6043D53 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:03:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mxip16a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip16a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.146]) by mxsf02.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5KM3g2A026857 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:03:42 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.254.3]) (24.176.115.34) by mxip16a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 20 Jun 2005 18:03:42 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,216,1115006400"; d="scan'208"; a="1207712993:sNHT29958956" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20050620040117.084eb0f0@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20050620040117.084eb0f0@cobalt.antimatter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Howse Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:03:41 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Subject: Re: qpopper error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:03:44 -0000 On Jun 20, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 05:52 PM 6/19/2005, Charles Howse wrote: > >> Hi, >> In my research before posting this question, I saw this same question >> in numerous places, but I never saw a resolution! >> >> I have qpopper 4.0.5 running from inetd on FBSD 4.11. >> I start it thus: /usr/local/libexec/qpopper >> When I connect from my Mac to check my mail, I see the following >> in / var/log/messages: >> >> Jun 19 19:45:18 moe qpopper[199]: charles at 192.168.254.3 >> (192.168.254.3): -ERR >> [SYS/TMP] POP authentication DB not abailable (user charles): No such >> file or directory (2) >> >> Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? >> > > Did you build qpopper from ports? or ? > What options did you enable or disable/ (assuming you built from > ports) > Glenn, Thank for the reply. I installed qpopper from /stand/sysinstall/ Configure/Packages. It didn't prompt me for any decisions, so I suppose you could say it's installed with the defaults. Thanks, Charles