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On Monday, October 14, 2019 5:46:46 P.M. AEDT Hartmut Figge wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> first some history. qpopper was masked a long time ago now but is still |
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> installed and working on my Gentoo. Even if it doesn't show up anymore |
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> on eix. But it does on eix-test-obsolete. |
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> I don't like this situation and would like to get rid of qpopper and |
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> replace it with another package. Nothing fancy, only to allow clients to |
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> use POP3 on localhost. |
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> Looking at the possibilities it seems I have to use popa3d which I know |
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> nothing about. Experiments would be tricky because first I would have to |
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> remove qpopper and would then have lost the current ability to use POP3. |
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> And if there are difficulties with popa3d... ;) |
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> Suggestions? |
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> Hartmut |
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I used to use qpopper until 2 or 3 years ago. |
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Now i use net-mail/tpop3d |
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It's entice config file is: |
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# cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf |
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listen-address: 127.0.0.1 |
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mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user) |
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auth-pam-enable: true |
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auth-pam-mail-group: mail |
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It runs as a service, started from systemd. |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |
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