>> the man pages and readmes indicated that it was run from inetd and it acts
>> as the user who is logging in. it does correctly get run by inetd because
>> when i connect from eudora or telnet, inetd does wake up popper and it
>> does answer.
>
>I really suggest using qpopper from ftp.qualcomm.com--it will look in
>the right place for the mail files and really doesn't require much
>configuration at all.

it's ok. :-) I got it. I was missing a link from

/usr/spool/mqueue and /usr/spool/mail
to their /var equivalents.
also was missing the .uid.pop file in /var/mail (it wanted it there for
some funny reason) and the access privvs setup the same as /var/mail/uid
files.
it works now.

this was sent from eudora :-)

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