Cannot find POP3 at public domain software site.

[Jessica Chou]

It seems that both "popper-2.3" or "qpopper-2.53" which I found at "hp-ux software and archive center" were not a workable depot
to be installed by swintall.
Is there any depot for POP3 available?
Than you.

Jessica

[Stefan Schulz · Accepted solution]

As far as I remember i tested gpopper and installed it with no problems. But i remember a problem with filenames.

After download did you get a ...depot or a ...depot.gz file? All files on this website should be *.gz files. So if you end up with a file without *.gz try to rename and gunzip it.

This worked for me many times. Hope this helps.

Regards Stefan

[John Palmer]

Jessica,

'popper 2.3' appears to be only for HP-UX 10.10.

'qpopper 2.53' is in depot format for HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00. It is in gzipped format so after gunzipping it you should be left with a .depot file for swinstall.

Regards,
John

[Jessica Chou]

Thank you for your reply.
Yes. qpopper was installed successfully with
swintall (I guess a typo made me think it's not a proper depot. :-p ) Now the excutable file is under /opt/qpopper/bin/X11/popper.
So, how do I start up this server?
I ran ./popper but coult not tell if the server is running ever since. ("ps -ef" didn't show it.).

Thank you for your time.

Jess

[Jessica Chou]

After I edited an entry for "popper" in /etc/inetd.conf, it's working now.