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 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
