topic Re: Fedora Core 5 POP3 in Operating System - Linux

Fedora Core 5 POP3

Vernon Brown_4 — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:12:52 GMT

I just installed Fedora Core 5 on an HP 7965 and want to use it in my LAN as a dedicated httpd and mail server. I have httpd up and running with Apache 2. Sendmail is running and console send and receive mail goes through Ok.

I have not yet discovered how to turn on POP3 service, however. Anyone know how to set up POP3 on Fedora Core 5 ??

Re: Fedora Core 5 POP3

Alexander Chuzhoy — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:18:44 GMT

You need to install dovecot:

# yum install dovecot

and start it:

chkconfig dovecot on

service dovecot start

There's a config file for dovecot where you can comment/uncomment what services you want to enable (pop3,imap,etc).

Re: Fedora Core 5 POP3

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:22:31 GMT

Shalom Vernon,

History:
A few versions ago someone decided that running a pop3 server as part of inetd or xinetd was not secure.

So they now provide dovecot and cyrus-imapd as alternatives. Cyrus was too hard to get working, I use dovecot.

SEP

Re: Fedora Core 5 POP3

Vernon Brown_4 — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:40:14 GMT

Thanks; installing dovecot did it.

Re: Fedora Core 5 POP3

Logu_2 — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:45:15 GMT

You may look for courier-imap or qpopper. Make sure they support mbox format as sendmail stores the mails in mbox format.

-logu