Fedora Core 5 POP3

[Vernon Brown_4]

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 ??

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

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).

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

Thanks; installing dovecot did it.

[Logu_2]

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

-logu