From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Feb 20 09:01:01 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA22947
          for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:01:01 -0800 (PST)
Received: from base486.synet.net (DIAL31.SYNET.NET [168.113.1.34])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA22940
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:00:51 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from imdave@localhost)
	by base486.synet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04642;
	Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:00:08 -0600 (CST)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:00:08 -0600 (CST)
From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net>
Message-Id: <199702201700.LAA04642@base486.synet.net>
To: rewt@i-Plus.net
Subject: Re: oops...  nevermind what I said about qpopper
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


From: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net>
> A few days ago, I responded to a post asking how to get qpopper to 
> run on FreeBSD.  One of the things I mentioned, was to change the 
> directories in popper.h.  DO NOT DO THIS, YOU MAY LOOSE MAIL.
>
> Earlier tonight, I lost an untold amount of mail when my server 
> rebooted.  Of course, in /etc/rc. /tmp is cleaned up.  Nothing 
> survives...  not even temporary mail files.  Damn blanktime 
> thingie... grrr....  
>
> (Oh, it now seems that the easiest way to get qpopper to work, is to 
> 'chmod 1777 /var/mail'  Are there any religious reasons why I don't 
> want to do this?)

I've installed ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper/qpop2.2.tar.Z

It's installed as:
-rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin         49152 Dec 13 17:03 /usr/local/libexec/popper

with inetd.conf:
pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/popper       popper -s

and from popper.h:

#if !defined(OSDONE) && (defined(BSD) && ((BSD) >= 199103))
# define POP_MAILDIR     "/var/mail"
# define POP_DROP        "/var/mail/.%s.pop"
# define POP_TMPDROP     "/var/mail/tmpXXXXXX"
# define POP_TMPXMIT     "/var/mail/xmitXXXXXX"
# define MAIL_COMMAND    "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
# define OSDONE
#endif


Everything works fine.  It runs as root, and has no problems with permissions.
Perhaps I've missed something, but it works for me.

Dave Bodenstab
imdave@synet.net