Hi, On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 10:43:27PM +0530, Sagar Acharya wrote: > I want to run it as pop3 server in alpine as daemon. > > When I execute > > popa3d -D at start, it does not start in background. A +OK is thrown at > stdout and the program runs in foreground.
That's because this functionality is not compiled in by default. You need to edit the POP_STANDALONE line in params.h changing the value from 0 to 1, and recompile: /* * Are we going to be a standalone server or start via an inetd clone? */ #define POP_STANDALONE 0 > Also, I have applied Maildir patch, will it automatically be able to access > mails under respective user ~/Maildir directories? I think so. Alexander
