What pop3 daemon should I use ???

mshack · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Poland

Hi everyone,

my boss wants our linux gateway to run a pop3 daemon (fetchmail and maildrop already working), so everyone in the company can get his mails from the one and only server. Another benefit is that all e-mails are saved two times, at the server and the client.

Well, whatever I have troubles make this work... I emerged vm-pop3d and I have problems with the authentication.

I tried to telnet on the server on port 110. Send the "USER anyuser" and got a "+OK", but after I send the password with "PASS mypassword" he gave me an "-ERR" ?!?!? I know, that the password I typed in was correct. Does anyone know another POP3 daemon, wich works?

I have heared that the authentication problem can have something to do with pam and authdaemond. Well I don't know how to manage pam and the authdaemond was already emerged by me => no effect.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
mshack

Torg · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 30

I use courier for pop3/imap serving.

emerge courier-imap will install it for you.

It does both pop3, and IMAP (IMAP is much better if you are going to store messages on the server.)

http://www.courier-mta.org is their site.

-Torg

smiler.se · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject:

courier-imap works with most MTAs out there and has pop3, pop3-ssl, imap and imap-ssl support.
It also supports many authentication methods

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mshack · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Poland

Thanks for your help, guys. I will give courier imap a try !!!

I let you know, when it's running !!!

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Unless I'm mistaken, I tried courier before. It was such a headache to make the various daemons play nice - and on top of that, I still haven't gotten tcpd-wrappers (as in /services) to work at all...

Torg · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 30

zhenlin,

I haven't had much trouble with my daemons. You might have trouble depending on your auth method though. I'm just using authpam currently.

There is a great write-up for installing courier-imap on gentoo in the Desktop configuration guide, if you get stuck with it.

You don't actually need a tcp wrapper.

to start services use this command

/etc/init.d/servicename start

e.g. /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d start

(stop, restart, and zap are also valid commands. Zap resets a misbehaving service back to stopped.)

and

rc-update servicename default

will make a service automatically start at boot.

Hope that helps,

-Torg