Hello,

I installed and configured Postfix (its working ok).
I then installed pop-before-smtp and edit the necessary conf files.
$pat variable etc...
It looks like it is working ok
as you can see here:
pop-before-smtp --config=/etc/pop-before-smtp-conf.pl --debug --nowrite --reprocess
Aug 23 17:10:03 starting up
Aug 23 17:10:03 found ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Aug 23 17:10:03 added xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to DB
Aug 23 17:10:03 found ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

BUT:
the pop-before-smtp.db file is never created !

so my mail.log gives me of course this error:
Aug 23 17:11:42 www postfix/smtpd[18561]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: No such file or directory


I tried the tips in tip 4 at:
popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/debug.shtml

and:
If the DB file does not exist, make sure that pop-before-smtp is running. OK

Check your init script and see if it is specifying a different --dbfile value than you thought. OK (since I use the pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file)
Look in the config file to see if there is a $dbfile value being set.
OK (it is set to $dbfile = '/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp'; )
I left
# Override the value that gets put into the DB hash.
#$dbvalue = 'ok';

commented

Ensure that you're running pop-before-smtp with enough permissions to write the DB file. OK (i even tried as root)

Any ideas what else could be the problem?

thx

Ollio

Try creating the file ang giving it global writer permissions (just for testing):
touch /etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db
chmod 666 /etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db
chmod 777 /etc/postfix

I tried your tips David.
I checked mail from another IP
pop-before-smtp says it added IP to DB
but still nothing gets added to the file.