Re[2]: [tpop3d-discuss]tpop3d error

zen zen <zen at bsdcon.co.uk>
Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:21:36 +0700


Hello Dave,

Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 8:23:04 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:14:31PM +0700, zen wrote:
>> > 1) Your /var/virtual/ directory looks the way you think it should?
>> > 2) You're logging in with user@domain as your userid, and not just user?
>> 
>> so where is the problem??
>>

> What I see is that your error message indicates that tpop3d cannot find
> the maildir that it's been configured to look for.

> So, if you're logging in with user@domain that would indicate the problem
> probably lies in the structure of the /var/virtual/ directory.

> So, does it look like you think it should?

> Do these three directories all exist?
>   /var/virtual/(domain name)/(user name)/cur
>   /var/virtual/(domain name)/(user name)/new
>   /var/virtual/(domain name)/(user name)/tmp

> Do any of these directories contain mail files?

> Do these directories have appropriate permissions for your tpop3d process
> to read/write into them?


> Dave


here is the structure of my /var/virtual:


%ls -al /var/virtual/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  27 root     wheel    512 Mar  1 15:54 ..
drwx------  14 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 14:06 bps.co.id
%ls -al /var/virtual/bps.co.id/
total 28
drwx------  14 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 14:06 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 ..
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:54 antie_gumulya
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 14:06 bowo
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 11:06 henny
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:53 heru
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 13:17 linawati
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:51 martono
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 11:16 mitra
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:54 panutomo
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 13:17 thomas
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 11:53 widodo
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 11:06 yunida
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 zen
%ls -al /var/virtual/bps.co.id/zen/
total 6
drwx------   3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 .
drwx------  14 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 14:06 ..
drwx------   5 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 Maildir
%ls -al /var/virtual/bps.co.id/zen/Maildir/
total 12
drwx------  5 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 .
drwx------  3 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 ..
drwx------  2 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 10:50 cur
-rw-------  1 virtual  virtual    7 Mar  1 13:09 maildirsize
drwx------  2 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 13:09 new
drwx------  2 virtual  virtual  512 Mar  1 13:09 tmp

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Best regards,
 zen                            mailto:zen@bsdcon.co.uk