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