Jerry Stuckle wrote:

The problem here, for anyone else who might have had this problem, was
that the /var/mail directory's group was root, instead of mail.
Evidently qpopper gets the gid from this directory's group.


Changing the group to mail solved the problem.


Hi, all,

A bit long, but trying to get all possibly relevant info in one post.

I have a new system, and I'm still learning my way around some. I've
got one problem I can't seen to solve. When a user logs in to fetch his
mail, he gets the message:


-ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/spool/pop/.username.pop with uid
1000, gid 0. Change permissions.


I looked at /var/spool/pop; the owner is root:mail, permissions
drwxrwsr-x, just like they should be.


I originally had qpopper starting in inetd.conf with the following:

pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.qpopper -f
/etc/qpopper.conf


I also tried the following from another system, which works:

pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.qpopper -f /etc/qpopper.conf
qpopper


No luck with either. As I was migrating things to xinetd anyway, I took
it out of inetd.conf and created the /etc/xinetd.d/pop3 as:


service pop3
{
port = 110
socket = type=stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
server_args = -f /etc/qpopper.conf
}

Also added group = mail, no luck.

Everything I see looks good - but still the message. Could someone
please tell me what I'm doing wrong?


TIA.

Jerry






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