From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 5:26:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B576237BB80 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA07925; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:54:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3976EF71.D8C4B409@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:24:17 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Carleton Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuring sendmail for POP References: <3976EBDC.22C0529E@miltonstreet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Carleton wrote: > > My install of FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE was that of a bare install. I have > sendmail up and receiving/sending mail. The machine is on a dedicated > internet connections and I would like to setup sendmail to server me my > email via POP3 rather then just pine. Do I need any other programs to > watch port 110? How do I configure sendmail for POP3? > > -- > Sam Carleton > Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and > help my local police force! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Sendmail is not a POP3 daemon, it's an MTA. There are two major POP3 daemons that I've used, Cucipop, and popper. Due to some security problems I've been made aware of in popper, I've been using cucipop now. I highly reccomend it, for two reasons 1-it's really reliable; has yet to go down on me, 2-it runs stand alone, whereas popper must be run from inetd. Both applications are in the FreeBSD ports collection. If you install cucipop, all you'll need to do is run the command '/usr/libexec/cucipop -Y' on system startup, (assuming that's where you've placed the executable). If you install popper, you'll have to use inetd. FreeBSD has a sample entry that just needs to be uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf for using popper already. Again, sendmail does not function as a POP3 server. You do have a bunch of other alternatives, but if you want my advice, go with cucipop, I'd stick with the 1.3x branch right now. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message