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HPUX 11 and Qualcomm qpopper

 
Don Ward_1
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HPUX 11 and Qualcomm qpopper

I am trying to get Qualcomm's qpopper server to run correctly under UX11. My
email client has no errors displayed when email is sent or received, but no
messages are ever received. I found that the email messages were not being
sent to /usr/mail/*usersname* or /var/mail/*usersname*. The mail messages seem
to be stuck in /usr/spool/mqueue. What is the correct directory that the mail
message should final be stored at awaiting retrieval? If anyone has
successfully installed this program under UX11 please contact me.

Thank you
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Re: HPUX 11 and Qualcomm qpopper

a) POP3 is for the user to retrieve mail OFF a server
b) sendmail is used fro sending mail

In your case it looks like that you sendmail is not running, thus you can send
no mail out.

I recommend checking with mailx whether
a) sending local mail works (from local user to local user)
b) sending remote mail works (from local to remote)
c) receiving remote mail works (check your syslog for that!)

IF everything works, you might try again with qpopper, but remberber: the
underlying mail transport has to work, before your users will see any piece of
mail!

Jason Luginbuhl_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: HPUX 11 and Qualcomm qpopper

One other thing to check. This may not be a problem with the Qualcomm qpopper.
Sendmail by default will queue mail messages in /var/spool/mqueue
(usr/spool/mqueue is a link to /var/spool/queue) for delivery. However, by
default the messages will not be delivered until the load average of the system
is under 8. Use the "top" utility to check the load average. If it is over 8,
then the messages will continue to queue until the load average drops or until
you configure sendmail to look at a different load average threshold. To do
this:

1) Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
2) Uncomment and edit the following line:
#O QueueLA=8
For example to have sendmail queue messages when the Load average reaches 20,
then:
O QueueLA=20
3) Stop and restart sendmail:
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start