Qmail: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir

I'm not an qmail expert, but looking at the error message it sounds like qmails needs  $HOME/Maildir
while you only have home/auser/Mailbox and /home/user/.qmail/Mailbox (where $HOME is /home/auser).
which is different, obviously.

Found that while the rest of Qmail supports a normal mailbox, the qmail-pop3d daemon does not.  I have moved to another pop3 system and all is happy.

Thanks anyway.

$HOME is one of the Environment Variables which linux box sets up when a user is logged in. It stands for the home directory of the user. Guess this is useless, but make sure that your home directory of auser is set to /home/auser. Good Luck!

here are the rule of thumb - which I created when I was INstalling qmail in big network in 1997:

[1] to start pop3 daemon (make sure u have checkpasswd and tcpserver) :
# tcpserver  0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup <hostname> /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir &
Note: This will only works with Maildir not with Mailbox.


[2] For creating Maildir directories in all user's home directory make shell script. Make sure that in /var/qmail/defaultdelivery directory rc file is containing ./Maildir/.

Here's how to set up qmail to use maildir for your incoming mail:

   % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
        % echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail

Arvind

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