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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Popper mail server. Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 20:19:31 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <31AE6543.3685@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31AC0770.2BC9@astrac.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Russell Mills wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am running FreeBSD V2.1 with the popper mail server. Now everything > works fine, I can send mail and receive mail from the real world. > The trouble is that when mail is received it goes straight to the > postmaster and not to the users on the system. How can I sort this?? > > The error message I get is :- > > mail loops back to myself [876] > > Thanks... That's definitely a strange one. I'm running 2.1R and loaded qpop, and it works fine. My son and daughter (and I) have no problem having mail routed correctly to the proper user's file in /var/mail, which is the incoming mailbox. The only adjustment I made anywhere after doing the pkg_add was to uncomment the pop3 entry at the bottom of the /etc/inetd.conf file. I do note that new directories of the form .<user>.pop have been generated, but this seems not to be a problem. One question: does each file in /var/mail show both owner and group equal to that user? Popper works by posing as each user for whom mail is received, and those files have only RW permissions by the owner -- no one else. Maybe it will help... Ken