On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:12:45 +1200 Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 yep, and unless something has changed thats the university of washington imap server, by Mark Crispin, the author of the imap rfc. its good in that it fits straight into the standard unix mbox mailboxes. also good in following the imap standard, cos the author wrote the standard. Bad when your mailboxes reach several thousand mails, as an mbox is one file per mailbox, and it can take a while to open/manipulate a mailbox. still if you are running it as a pop server as opposed to imap, your inbox will get emptied when you download the mail. but then once you get imap, you won't go back, but thats a whole different thread.... > > Thanks Nick for helping me understand this better. > -- > Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
