[afnog] Sendmail Vs Qmail mail delivery

[Brian Candler]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:43:43PM +0300, orimbo at arcc.or.ke wrote:
> I have migrated from sendmail to qmail.
> Mails are delivered well to /home/user/Maildir.
> *Sendmail is completely deleted*
> When users try to pop their mail, they get message that there are no mails: the system is still looking at /var/spool/mail.
> 
> How do i tell qmail to deliver to /var/spool/mail? or how should users pop their mail from /home/user/Maildir?

You need to change your pop3 server. qmail comes with one called
'qmail-pop3d' which is basic but adequate.

When you installed qmail, qmail-pop3d should have been built too. You'll
need to stop your existing pop3 server (e.g. comment it out from inetd.conf)
and put the incantantion to start qmail-pop3d in inetd.conf instead.

More advanced servers include courier-imap/sqwebmail which will give you
IMAP as well as POP3 access.

Regards,

Brian.