Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/10/03:18:32
Wes S wrote:
> I've spent most of saturday trying to get exim and imap3d to work.
> By inserting a bunch of echo "some thing" statements in the exim-conf
> file, I figured out where the config script was bombing on me. So
> exim seems to be working a-ok. At least it sends and I can get pine
> to read my /var/spool/mail/(user).
>
> However, I'd like to use a windows mail program so I need to get
> imap3d to work.
>
> Using filemon from www.sysinternals.com (tip found searching this
> list archives), I figured out that ipop3d is looking for mail in
> /var/mail/(user). Let me verify, create directories, copy a user to
> /var/mail and try getting mail via ipop3d. Works! So ipop3d works,
> my settings in mozzila work, I got inetd working, yada yada.
>
> Well, obviously I need to tell exim to put mail somewhere else so I
> changed the exim.conf file to use what ipop3d wanted. I rebooted the
> pc rather than send HUP to exim, figured had the same effect.
>
> So in exim.conf I changed this:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> file = /var/mail/$local_part
>
> Now I get 2005-07-09 21:27:41 IJDXRD-0001D4-AT == wess AT wess DOT mdns DOT org
> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating
> lock file hitching post
[snip]
Permission denied is the clue here, you should have read the comments above the
part of exim's configuration you changed. Copy the permissions of the original
spool directory (/var/spool/mail/) to the one you made (/var/mail):
chmod --reference=/var/spool/mail /var/mail
chown --reference=/var/spool/mail /var/mail
That should do it.
--
René Berber
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