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. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
