Thanks for the help solar, Now it runs as daemon. Now, I get an issue authenticating users. I have a user foo,
When I do telnet localhost:110 +OK USER foo +OK PASS something -ERR Connection closed by foreign host Maildir exists and the password is right. What is happening? On 21 October 2023 4:31:29 am IST, Solar Designer <so...@openwall.com> wrote: >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
