Pop3 server

cov · 04-03-2007, 11:19 AM

What I need is to be able to log into my computer and pick up email using an ordinary pop3 client.

Is there a simple email server which allows one to connect using thunderbird or some such and collect email?

I'm using fetchmail to take the mail off an internal server and I need the users to collect it.

I'm using Suse 10.1 which has fetchmail, procmail, postfix, qpopper and imap already installed.

mcupples · 04-03-2007, 12:24 PM

I believe with a basic configuration the pop and smtp paths are the same. In your case, the IP would work. The pop port would be 110 and the smtp port should be 25. No authentication with this method, though.

Or you could always try http://google.com/a/

cov · 04-05-2007, 08:33 AM

If I set up qpopper in the /etc/xinet.d/qpopper

service pop3
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/popper
server_args = -s
flags = IPv4
port = 110
}

and then restart xinet, it sould it 'just work'?

If I use my email client to log on to my server using 198.168.2.99 and port 110 as user with a passwork, it should just feed all my email into my email client?

Have I got the wrong end of the stick?

bsdunix · 04-05-2007, 08:49 AM

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and then restart xinet, it sould it 'just work'?

Did you agree to the license? Don't know if the License.txt file is parsed before loading qpopper.

"You must agree to the license in
/usr/share/doc/packages/qpopper/License.txt before you can use qpopper.
After installation, activate the server in the file /etc/inetd.conf or
/etc/xinetd.d/qpopper."

http://www.novell.com/products/linux...x/qpopper.html

cov · 04-05-2007, 08:57 AM

Hmmm.

Okay, there's nothing in there that I have a problem with; where do I sign?

I can't think that that is it. Apart from anything else there is no reference in the documentation I've read to indicate that acceptance of the License is a major prerequisite.

bsdunix · 04-05-2007, 10:11 AM

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Okay, there's nothing in there that I have a problem with; where do I sign?

Use your virtual pen to sign the document on your monitor.