[PLUG] IPOPD broken; can't get mail

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

I had ipopd running, with postfix as MTA, on Debian 2.2. I decided to
try the Courier POP instead - the mailing list says it's technically
much better, with more options - but there was some weird problem with
the Debian packages (couldn't find some configuration files, etc). So I
uninstalled it. (using standard apt-get remove; it had been installed
using apt-get install, from unstable).

So then I went back to plain old simple ipopd. And it installed fine
(again, using apt-get). 
Except that the damn thing won't find spooled mail any more!

It gets called out properly:

Mar  5 23:49:14 workhorse ipop3d[13335]: pop3 service init from 192.168.100.40
Mar  5 23:49:14 workhorse ipop3d[13335]: Login user=turgon host=minas-aran.mike-leone.com [192.168.100.40] nmsgs=0/0
Mar  5 23:49:14 workhorse ipop3d[13335]: Logout user=turgon host=minas-aran.mike-leone.com [192.168.100.40] nmsgs=0 ndele=0

But that's wrong, there *are* messages:

workhorse:/var/spool/mail# ls -la turgon
-rw-r--r--    1 turgon   mail        78640 Mar  5 23:52 turgon

Why won't ipopd find those messages? Mail is being delivered properly to
/var/spool/mail/turgon (as it was before, when ipopd was working). ipopd
is being called out properly, on connection to port 110. ipopd has no
config files, except for APOP passwords, and I'm not using them.

Somebody help, please - it's highly irksome, not being able to get to my
mail. :-(

(BTW ... imapd doesn't work, either. But the permissions on the
/var/spool/mail/turgon file looks OK).

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