In Debian you can use a command line package manager called dpkg to
install, uninstall and query the installed packages. Here's a few
examples; the man page tells all.

dpkg -L <qpopperPackageName> will give you a list of files in the
package. If not sure of the exact package name, use dpkg -l | grep
qpopper.

Two places where flags can be set are in the /etc/init.d/ startup script
for qpopper, and in /etc/defaults/. Haven't seen this particular package,
but the files are usually well commented with instructions.

Hope this is helpful.

Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Lisa Casey wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:00:52 -0400
> From: Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Subscribers of Qpopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Need help configuring bulletin support on Debian GNU
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Debian GNU (2.4 I believe) system that we acquired when we bought
> another ISP. This system was using pop3d as it's POP3 server. I really like
> Qpopper, particularly for it's bulletin support. I am currently using
> Qpopper on a FreeBSD system and on a Redhat system.
> 
> Up until today I have not tried to install anything on this Debian box.
> Debian uses something called Dselect to 1) search for packages, 2) Update
> packages, 3) Install packages, 4) Configure packages, etc. I managed to
> fumble my way through using Dselect to find a Qpopper package for my system,
> install it and uninstall the pop3d. What a learning experience that was!
> 
> Anyway, it worked. I can telnet to port 110 and it tells me that I'm running
> Qpopper 4.0.4 and I can pop mail from the system. But, I never got the
> chance  to pass any configuration flags such as -- enable-bulletins.
> 
> Choosing the Configure option of dselect doesn't help, it just looks for
> something that needs configuring, doesn't find anything then exits.
> 
> Has anyone ever run across this before? Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lisa Casey
> 
> 

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