RE: gnu-pop3d

["Paul McHale" <pmchale@doubleesolutions.com>]

Richard,


I would make sure your winbox mail client is configured to use a valid
account/password on the linux box.  If it is, I am not sure what the problem
is.  With my setup, Linux is where the mail is actual sent.  My account
pmchale@doubleesolutions.com is pmchale@linuxserver.  My mail client
(outlook89) is configured with pmchale/password.  The only other thing I
could figure is GNU might use some other source for passwords.  Using
another pop3 daemon would solve this.

You might try cucipop or qpopper.  Both installed in seconds on mine and
either one ran without a hitch.  Both initially use standard name/password
for access.  This doesn't fix your problem but will give you a second point
of reference.

-paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Clarke [mailto:clarker8@cs.man.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 8:44 AM
To: Debian User List
Subject: gnu-pop3d


Hi,
    I have my debbox, set up so that exim delivers local mail, and I can run
fetchmail to retrieve pop3 mail to a local mailbox. I now wish to be able to
download this mail to my winbox on the internal network. I installed
gnu-pop3d and added it to inetd.conf, and I can telnet to port 110 just fine
and get the response,
+OK POP3 Welcome to GNU POP3 Server Version 0.9.8
<19428.940945560@clarke-r.sta.
man.ac.uk>

So I take it the pop3d is running ok. However no matter what
username/password I use, I receive bad password responses. My inetd.conf
line is,
pop-3           stream  tcp     nowait  mail    /usr/local/sbin/gnu-pop3d
gnu-pop3d

and services line is,
pop-3           110/tcp                         # POP version 3

Could somebody with experience in pop3d or otherwise offer my a solution to
the problem. Also, is this actually the correct way to go about retrieving
mail to my winbox?

Thanx
Richard


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