[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?

[Robert G. Brown]

bill <bill@billtron.com> writes:
>Perhaps I wasn't clear.On the sendmail/fetchmail box I logged in using PINE
>and found the mail.  Then, after I got pop3 running on that box, on another
>machine I pointed my e-mail program (Netscape, in this case) to the
>sendmail/fetchmail/pop3 machine.  But, it wouldn't accept the legitimate
>password.
AQh, this term "legitimate password".... what's that?

>The sendmail/fetchmail box had a user account with an identical user name. 
>It wouldn't cough up the mail until I provided the user account password.
>In any case there was no remote shell involved.  Hence, my question.
The user account and password you have to provide are the ones local
to the host on which the POP3 server is running.

>gracias
muy bien!

>> I also suggest you:
>> man rpm
>And that's a whopper.
Well, it does a lot. If you think the man page is buig, you should
see the BOOK! (Maximum RPM).

>> >>>Wouldn't that be two hensway?
>> >>No. Some people just don't know nothin' about grammar! :)
>> >Grammar?  I thought it was avoirdupois.
>> Oh, please. Henway are aviary-duplicates! :)
>Only if there's more than one.  I guess grammar is involved... spelling maybe, too.
Yeah, my mistake, I was referring to Henways.

>> >Which is why the option to restart ipop3 wasn't available, I guess.
>> Probably. You would need to know that ipop3 is configured to work via xinetd.
>> man xinetd or man ipop3d
>It's those "you need to know" stuff that gets ya.  ....
Well, it's not QUITE as bad as all that. I did point you to man pages. 
There's also a keyword search among man pages, called man -k or apropos, like
apropos email
for example.

>> >How to add a service?
>Still waiting on that one.
chkconfig --add [service]
answer come to those who wait (or those that pester people!  :)

>>>>>Lastly, the default "interval" is zero (0). ...
>>>....What does the default mean? What behavior
>> does fetchmail exhibit with this setting?
>None that I can see.
Oh. imteresting oh well.. the man page is pretty clear on default meanings
and behaviors.

>> OK. I never actually used that configuration program, the fetchmail
>> configuration file uses a very easy-to-learn, almost English-language
>> method... here's an example....
>>  poll thathost.net with proto pop3;
>>   user melvin there has password grub3by is
>>   bob here
>Yup, almost English, almost understandable.
If you read some public pronouncements by leaders in Business and Governemnt, 
this oughtta be a snap! :)

>Who is melvin and what is he drinking?
melvin is the username on the POP3 server.

>It looks like the name of the script is the same as the program it is
>calling.  What would happen if it was in the same directory?  
>I.e., in Win/dos, the order of precedence is set by the
>extension (com/bat/exe, I think).
>Does Linux have program calling precedence rules?
As far as I know, no UNIX has these, and there is no formal 
recognition of "extents". That is to say, the extent is simply
part of the name.

Also, the last line of the scrit I posted simply echos how one calls the 
script, it doesn't call the script itself. Infact, this script is not
in anyone's PATH, so any calles to something called "fetchmail" in the
script istself are calling the executable, not this script. There are
other ways to do that, w/o hard-coding the script name (which is fragile).

							Regards,
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