Franco Vecchiato wrote:
>
> Hello. I'm trying to use vpopmail along with qmail, but there are some
> difficulties that I cannot explain to myself.
>
> I've installed and configured vpopmail following the installation
> instructions contained in the file http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/INSTALL.
> Note that I configured vpopmail with the fast default install (./configure;
> make; make install-strip) of point 4 of this document, neglecting point 5 as
> I didn't configured with the option --enable-roaming-users=y.
>
> After having added a new domain test.it and a new user of this new domain, I
> reached point 12 of the installation instructions, but the command
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup linuxmag.test.it /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
> (linuxmag is the hostname of this experimental linuxbox) gives back the
> following error message:
>
> "tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used"
>
> This is for the server side of the game.
>
> Then I tried (just for checking purposes) to configure a pop client in
> another computer to get the mail from the new user and domain of vpopmail
> but, obviously enough, I obtained the error message "authorization failed"
> from the server.
>
> Any suggestion?
Cehck your /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinet.d diretories, You probablly
already have a pop server setup and running.
The error message is saying some other program already has port 110
open and listening. port 110 is the pop port.
Ken
