Re: dazed and confused - pop3 port
Thanks to you and all the other replies i recieved, the problem is now
fixed, i installed ipopd and was away in under 3 minutes flat!
I guess i was just used to NT doing everything for me without having to make
choices (or having the oportunity) :)
thanks again
-Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carel Fellinger" <cfelling@iae.nl>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: dazed and confused - pop3 port
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:32:54PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote:
> ...
> > i added
> > pop3 stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
> >
> > thinking along the lines of the redhat box, ......but she no work
The
> > port is now open (i can telnet to it ) but exim doesnt reply.
>
> it's not exim's task to look after pop, so you'll have to install a
> pop daemon. No need to add that line yourself, installing a pop daemon
> should do it for you. Just pick one of:
>
> $ apt-cache search pop3
> cyrus-common - Cyrus mail system (common files)
> ipopd - POP2 and POP3 servers from UW
> cyrus-pop3d - Cyrus mail system (POP3 support)
> qpopper - Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3).
> cucipop - Cubic Circle's POP3 daemon
>
> > anyway if someone could explain to me why debian doesnt have this port
in
> > the inetd.conf file (there must be a valid reason) and why i should or
> > should not use Qpopper or like product, because clearly i don't
understand
> > the correlation between exim, pop3 and qpopper and i would like to! :-)
>
> The pop3 packet you install will add the appropriate line in
> inetd.conf. Exim is there just to transport mail from one system to
> an other (possibly the same), as a bonus it is capable of stuffing
> mail locally in /var/mail, but normally one would use procmail for
> that part. Pop3 is just the name of a protocol used to get to your
> var/mail mailboxes even if you're on a diferent machine. Qpopper (and
> others, see above) implement the pop3 protocol.
>
> --
> groetjes, carel
>
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