users with invalid directories

[Jonathan Wilson]

I know almost nothing about this, but off the top of my head: disable support for bulletins and see if that fixes the problem. You probably don't need bulletins anyway :-) ?

At 11:52 PM 7/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I tried solidpop3d a couple of days ago as a replacement for qpopper. I installed solidpop3d v0.15 via the FreeBSD port. When I switched over to solidpop3d, I started getting the following errors:
>
>Jul  9 00:38:54 home spop3d[88869]: can't open or create file: /nonexistant/.spop3d-bull
>Jul  9 00:38:54 home spop3d[88869]: open: No such file or directory
>
>Most of my POP3 users have /nonexistant as their home directory, which (not surprisingly) doesn't actually exist. I tried symlinking /dev/null to /nonexistant in case that helped, but it didn't.
>
>Any idea how to fix this? I'd prefer not to actually give users home directories if I can help it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bryan
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