Re: RH4 + pop account

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From: Kester Habermann
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 00:00

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Hi,
Colin Bloch (support@accesscomm.net) wrote:
: Glenn T. Jayaputera wrote:
: > 
: > I have just installed RH4 off the CD.  applied all the relevant patches.
: > Intalled PAM.  I am having a problem w/ reading my mail via pop3 ( using
: > ms mail on win95 ).  It complains something like server is not
: > responding..
: > 
: > Is there anything I have to setup to make pop3 working....
: > 
: > thanks in advance
: > glenn tesla
: 
: you need ipop3d, or try this popper:
: ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper
: No hassles, easy compile, good documentation.

A popd comes with RH4.0, see if package "imap" is installed
(rpm -qi imap) and that you have a line in you /etc/inetd.conf. like:
# Pop and imap mail services et al
imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd

You can test the popd under linux using popclient.


Kester.
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From: kester@unix-ag.uni-kl.de (Kester Habermann)
Subject: Re: RH4 + pop account
Date: 1997/02/02
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