Robert,
I GOT IT!!!!! But it sure wasn't easy!
Here are the steps I took to solving my little dilema....
1) I had to uninstall Postfix for starters...Why in the first place did
we need to use Postfix...it's touted as a "sendmail
compatible....." well that being the case I think I'll just use
sendmail. So I did. There were a few dependancies that had to be
unsinstalled as well but they were pretty insignificant.
2) Make sure you have the latest and greatest version of sendmail
installed on your machine...this obviously can be obtained from
ftp.rpmfind.net The rpm installation does enough to get you started
so don't rock the boat with sendmail yet.
3) Download qpopper3.1 from http://www.qualcomm.com (Don't look for an
RPM) Get the tar file and run ./configure and make and then go to the
popper directory and copy the popper executable into a directory that
is in your path or something....I put mine in /usr/local/lib (don't
ask why that was what the example used)
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If you are using shadow password, you should run configure with
--enable-specialauth, for example:
./configure --enable-specialauth
Otherwise you will get password authentication failures every time!
4) In your inetd.conf file (/etc/inetd.conf) make sure that you have pop3
enabled and change the line from:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
to:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lib/popper qpopper -s
5) Run ps aux |grep inetd to find the process id and then kill -HUP the
ability to pop your mail now :-)
Ofcourse this only will help if you're ok with getting rid of
Postfix. From what I understand there are security considerations in
sendmail that make postfix preferable....I say if you have your box locked
down well enough don't worry about it! :-)
Hope this helps you Robert and Marshall thanks for the offer of help.
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, rharvey wrote:
> I have asked several questions as to how to setup a pop server I cant seem
> to get mine up and running. I want it to recive my domain mail for me. I
> have my provider sending every thing to my domain ip but I cant get the
> postfix to handle it. or any one to answer the questions i have posted here
> and in expert.
> If some one can help me I would appriciate it.
>
> thanks
> Robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marshall Lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 2:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] I give up!
>
>
> >
> > > From what I've been reading here on this list I'm not the only one
> having
> > > issues with "POPping" my mail. I have completely removed postfix and
> > > ANYTHING that used it and re-installed sendmail. Thinking that I was
> > > pretty clever, because I used to be able to get sendmail and linux
> playing
> > > nicely together, I gave myself a little pat on the back. Once again
> went
> > > and enabled POP3 from inetd.conf and HUP'ed the ol process and when I
> > > tried and tested the "POPping" it didn't work....
> > >
> > > I'm so frustrated at this point I'm ready to take a hammer to the
> machine
> > > or my head...but I think it would hurt me less if I hit the computer,
> but
> > > anyway...if anyone knows what step I've left out or steps i've left out
> > > please give me a hint!
> >
> > I just joined the list so I haven't been following whatever problems with
> > "popmail" have been vocalized. But, I'm running 7.1, sendmail, postfix,
> > and poptart and I haven't encountered any problems picking up pop mail.
> >
> > --
> > Marshall Lake - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://melake.erols.com
> > http://melake.erols.com/the-beach http://melake.erols.com/genealogy
> >
> >
>
>
>
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