On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:32:10PM +0200, Mikael Chambon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well I am trying to activate POP3 over ssl with qpopper and something is
> going wrong:
>
> Here is my conf:
>
> Redhat 7.2
> qpopper4.0.4fc3
> openssl-0.9.6b-8
> openssl-devel-0.9.6b-8
>
> configure
> flags: --enable-log-login --enable-shy --enable-standalone --enable-debuggin
> g
> --with-openssl=/lib
>
> Runtime options: /usr/local/sbin/popper -d -l 2 -s -S -T 60 -f
> /etc/mail/pop/qpopper.config
>
> qpopper.config:
> set tls-support = alternate-port
> set tls-server-cert-file = /etc/mail/certs/cert.pem
>
> The problem is that as far as netstat say, qpopper is not binding on port
> 995, and that's what I need
> for my outlook clients.
You have to explicitly set the port it should bind to. IIRC, it's "-P 995"
"alternate-port" sets the style of operation for TLS, it doesn't
specify a port.
This doesn't bite as many people as it could, just because most users
launch qpopper from [x]inetd rather than running standalone.
-- Clifton
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