popmail in busybox

[Murali K. Vemuri]

Hi,

Thanks a ton for continued help .
That works. 

BTW, this is the cpu info:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor Number :      0
Processor version :     0 (ARCtangent A4 processor family)
CPU speed :     162.00 Mhz
Bogo MIPS :     80.89
Timers:         TIMER1 TIMER0
INT_VECBASE:    0x80008000
PERIPHERAL_BASE:        0x0
Icache:(type/size/length):      2 way/32KB/32B
Dcache:(type/size/length):      4 way/32KB/32B
MMU:(Version/uDTLB/uITLB/JTLB/JA):Extensions:CRC TEL_INSTR MAC SWAP NORM
MIN/MAX MUL(32*32) BARREL
#



I will make a newbie document with all my struggle added :) 
that might help another newbie some time.
Thanks & regards
Murali

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:00 +0300, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> >
> > # popmaildir -k /var/spool/mail -- nc pop.gobizmail.com 110
> > User:
> > Password:
> > popmaildir: can't open 'tmp/946685349380000.1114.(none)': No such file
> > or directory
> > popmaildir: helper killed by signal 15
> > #
> >
> > Here, I enter the username and password at the prompt  and then throws
> > the error message. I don't understand where the SIGTERM is coming from.
> >
> >
> > any idea why this kind of thing happens?
> >
> 
> This means popmaildir have connected, authenticated and tried to fetch
> the first message to temporary location
> tmp/946685349380000.1114.(none) (here '(none)' stands for your
> hostname, which is not good:). Since you have no 'tmp' subdir in your
> /var/spool/mail, temporary file cannot be created, and popmaildir
> honestly fails, thus killing the helper to not leave zombies.
> 
> All that happens because you didn't provide right Maildir structure,
> which _is_ the assumption of pop*maildir* :)
> 
> Maildir should contain tmp,cur,new subdirectories. Create them under
> your /var/spool/mail and try again.
> 
> > Some info about my environment might be useful to help me better.
> > So, I am using a board which has ARC architecture based processor (this
> > arch does not comply with any of the well known i386/ARM/MIPS etc).
> >
> > This board we bring up with Linux Kernel 2.6.19 & run busybox for all
> > the general linux utilities.
> 
> What does "cat /proc/cpuinfo" give?
> 
> -- Vladimir
> 
> 
>