From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 12: 8:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.sw.cc.va.us (unknown [164.106.192.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F9F15436 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael_brown@sw.cc.va.us) Received: from mike (164.106.197.101) by mailhost.sw.cc.va.us (WorldMail 1.3.122); 1 Mar 1999 15:08:01 -0500 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:11:18 -0500 Message-ID: <01BE63F5.C21A6680.michael_brown@sw.cc.va.us> From: Michael Brown Reply-To: "michael_brown@sw.cc.va.us" To: "'jim@corp.au.triax.com'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: POP3 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:11:17 -0500 Organization: Southwest Virginia Community College X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I retrieved qpopper however I don't know what I am doing to set it up. I understand unix and sendmail, but not qpopper. How do I set up the pop3 server name? -----Original Message----- From: Jim Mock [SMTP:jim@corp.au.triax.com] Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 4:42 PM To: Michael Brown Cc: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: Re: POP3 On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 at 16:27:16 -0500, Michael Brown wrote: > I need to setup a pop3 server with Freebsd. How would I go by > doing this? > Install one =) There are a few in the ports collection to choose from.. qpopper, cucipop, uw-imapd/pop3d.. take your pick. cd /usr/ports/mail/popper make install Then make sure you add or uncomment the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf.. pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper popper After doing that you'll need to restart inetd.. ps auxw |grep inetd kill -1 Hope this helps, -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD 'zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message