RE: Setting up POP mail

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 12:54 AM 4/2/99 +0200, you wrote:
>On 01-Apr-99 Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
>> I have a lonely linux box sitting on a lan with many other Windows 95,
>> 98 , NT based pc's. What I'd like to do (if it is possible) is setup a
>> POP based mail server for use by the Windows machines using Nescape
>> Messenger as the user agent.
>> 
>> Questions:
>> 
>> 1) What RPM's do I need to load to setup POP mail?
>
>You an use the imapd RPM that ships with Red Hat, but I use qpopper from
>Qualcomm. It only comes as source, but I had no problem compiling it.
>there is a compile option for shadow passwords. Qpopper has a few nice
>little extras that th ipop3d included with imapd does not have. Either
>package will work fine.

How did you get qpopper to work!? I'm running rh5.2 and I've tried the
2.53-PAM rpm in RH's contrib, the 2.53 tarball at qualcomm and the
3.0beta14 tarball at qualcomm and none of them work right.  There seem to
be a lot of people who have trouble getting qpopper installed properly.
Although I've avoided it, I think you need to install gdbm and then patch
gdbm to work with Linux (at least if you are using shadow passwords)--did
you do this?  All popauth will tell me, if it will build at all, is that it
cannot open the auth database.  I'm using a stock system which apparently
means ndbm.

Also, the imapd that ships with RH has a security hole, doesn't it?  I get
scanned on that port all the time so I wouldn't run it unless it's secure.

-Alan




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