On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:00, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:31:16 +1200
> Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > > On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:05, you wrote:
> > > > Good day
> > > > How difficult is it to set up internal mail - that is, between my
> > > > box and my wife's NT box? She often needs to forward mail to
> > > > me... At the moment we both pop our mail from our respective ISP
> > > > mailboxes.
> > >
> > > Not very, read up about fetchmail, procmail, and a mail transport
> > > agent. postfix is a good choice. You will also need a pop3 server.
> > >
> > > http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
> > > http://www.procmail.org/
> > > http://www.postfix.org/
> > > http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/
> > >
> > > There are other competing projects for the last 2.
> >
> > AFAIK pop3 is included by default through xinetd and is listed as
> > ipop3 in the services list. fetchmail-procmail-postfix works fine for
> > me.
>
> no, xinetd does not provide the pop service, just a route to get to the
> pop service. you need a pop server, which there are several
>
> university of washington imap server
> courier imap
> cyrus imapd
> qpopper
>
> don't be fooled by the imap names, they do pop and imap.
>
> xinetd does not provide services itself. it directs tcp/udp traffic to
> the appropriate daemon.
Hmmmm. Seems this weekend I will be learning some more about pop3. Under
rh9 to setup pop3 for my gf running w2k all I did was enable ipop3
through the xinetd services applet. Seems I was wrong in understanding
what was happening. These commands cleared it up though,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3
# default: off
# description: The POP3 service allows remote users to access their mail
\
# using an POP3 client such as Netscape Communicator, mutt,
\
# or fetchmail.
service pop3
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += HOST DURATION
log_on_failure += HOST
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/ipop3d
imap-2001a-18
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ locate imap-2001a-18 | grep rpm
/scr/ftp/rh9/install/SRPMS/imap-2001a-18.src.rpm
/scr/ftp/rh9/install/RedHat/RPMS/imap-2001a-18.i386.rpm
It seems that under rh9 I am using fetchmail-procmail-postfix-imap-2001a
for mail. YMMV
Thanks Nick for helping me understand this better.
--
Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
