pop3 daemon for Fedora Core 1

[Vernon Brown_4]

Today I installed Fedora Core 1 as my LAN server and internet gateway. Everything seems to be working now except a pop3 email daemon.

Does anyone know where on Fedora Core 1 there is pop3 or email reader service of some flavor ?

Thanks for any help !!

Vern

[Steven E. Protter]

There really is not pop3 daemon. The xinetd daemon handles pop3

Here is how to get it enabled.

as root
cd /etc/xinetd.d

vi ipop3

change disable=yes to disable=no

Do the same thing for ipop2

service xinetd restart

Then any pop3 reader will be able to pull mail off the server.

SEP

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

You have to make sure the 'imap-2002d-3' package is installed (rpm -q imap).

If it is, then just:

chkconfig ipop3d on

That should be it!

If you're using a firewall, or TCP wrappers, they'll need to be opened up to allow your LAN to access port 110.

[Vernon Brown_4]

Hi Steven; thanks for your resonse.

I looked for pop3, and pop2 in xinetd.d; they were not present in either of my two Fedora installs. (My PC and the server ) I think I selected the option to install everything. That was my intent; maybe I missed something.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

You were suppose to look for ipop3 rather than pop3.
Stuart's post has it all......

[Vernon Brown_4]

Thanks Stuart, and all; don't know how I missed that package. Funny; I missed it on both installs that I did, and thought I was installing everything.

Fedora looks great so far !

Vern

[Vernon Brown_4]

Well; I'm not quite there yet :o(

rpm -q imap

from the command line gets me the usage error message. I've never used rpm; guess it is time I got to know it.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

rpm -q imap will work only if you installed imap.

to query uninstalled rpm
rpm -qp path/rpm_name.rpm

[Vernon Brown_4]

Ok; rpm response shows the package not installed.

[root@linda root]# rpm -q imap
package imap is not installed
[root@linda root]#

I have the set of three Fedora CD's from cheapbytes.com; they come bare; no documentation; but they were only $9 so what the hey !

So my task now is down to; how to get the package off the CD's ??

Vern

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

take it from here:
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/imap-2002d-3.i386.rpm

just click on the link

[Vernon Brown_4]

Alexander; the link seems to be down; times out. I did find on the internet that the imap package comes with "dovecot" or is associated with it in some way.

[root@linda dovecot-0.99.10]# rpm -q dovecot
dovecot-0.99.10-6
[root@linda dovecot-0.99.10]#

And dovecot seems to be installed; but no imap or pop3. Getting closer; but not quite there yet.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

Sorry, it does work for me.Neverless try this link:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
locate the imap package and download it.
Best regards.

[Steven E. Protter]

imap and pop3 are different animals.

If you picked squirrelmail on the install checklist then imap went int. This applies to Fedora Core 1 and RH 3.0 series.

The imap rpm should be on the original install cd and can be installed directly with the rpm -iv command or via the graphical installer add/remove programs, though the latter route has proved somewhat troublesome for me.

SEP

[Vernon Brown_4]

Success !!!

I popped cd#3 in the cd drive; the drive symbol appeared on the desktop; clicked the symbol; found the rpm package; clicked on it; and bingo; it istalled and ipop3 and other good stuff appeared in the /etc/xinetd.d directory.

From there I set disable = no rebooted and was home free !

Thanks again Steven !

Vern

[Stuart Browne]

Steven,

The binary for the pop2 and pop3 servers are packaged together with the imap server, in the 'imap' package.

The developer I beleive is associated with Washington U, and they do all 3, as well as the email reader 'Pine' and editor 'Pico'.

The source packages for them are all tied together so.. Much fun.

[Manuel Wolfshant]

just a side note. you might also wish to take a look at dovecot (included in the FC1 kit) and to various other flavors of pop3 daemons (cyrus, courier-imap, solar designer's pop3 daemon....). the "imap...rpm" package included in various redhat distributions is rather old and lacks facilities available in other newer daemons.

[Mario Casamalhuapa]

I am trying to install the imap 2001 but it says that I need to install libcom_err.so.3? I install krb5, because it says that it has libcom_err.so.3, but nothing. I am going in circles, could anyone help.

[Rodney_24]

It's not your fault - i just installed Fedora Core 2 and the same thing happened - no pop or imap. Astonishingly frustrating.

You want to find yourself imap-2002d-3.i386.rpm and "rpm -Uvh imap-2002d-3.i386.rpm" will see you home and hosed.

Then (if you're using postfix) just "service postfix restart". If you're not using postfix, then you should ;-)

[Mario Casamalhuapa]

Well, I just used DoveCot, it works fine and from what I hear it is secured...? It is up and running and I have had no problems.

The problem that I had was that I could not update the php-imap. The up2date was down so I had to learn how to use CPAN and yum, once I got that working I was okay.

[Rodney_24]

With my Fedora Core 2 install, it flat out won't let me install PHP-IMAP. It says I don't have PHP installed, yet I clearly do. If I apt-get PHP it says it's already there (grrr). This is a fresh, 3 day old install, so I'm not very impressed with this "core/stable" product thus far. I Think I will blow it away and reinstall it and hope for the best...

That aside - dovecot is fine for IMAP but you're going to run into POP3 troubles down the track, I think. I would really recommend you *do* get imap-2002.... You can find it at "http://rpmfind.rediris.es/rpm2html/fedora-os-i386/imap-2002d-3.i386.html"

I run a whole heap of Fedora Core 1 servers and everyone of them has imap/pop3 in by default - so it sounds like we've both been hit by some wierd installation bug. It definately should be there, by default.

[Vernon Brown_4]

My pop3 is working fine now using the dovecot package; I think. I'm using up2date and have all installed packages up to date; all seems well.

[Mario Casamalhuapa]

Why don't you use YUM? I think that is better than up2date, and I have not heard anything bad about Dovecot with Pop3, I use Imap, but Dovecot is a Pop3 Server too, and does what it is suppose to.

Just out of curiosity what Email Application are you using? Is it webmail?

[Rodney_24]

Yum's good too - but i am using apt-get, not up2date. None the less, the basic install claimed to have PHP installed but refused to use it. It seemed to just be an install bug because a redo fixed everything.

AS for mail - it's postfix but the web client is squirrelmail (built into fedora - you'd think the built in client would work, wouldn't you?) I played briefly with dovecot but found that mailboxes tended to become locked for no reason. Still, that was some time back and dovecot may / may not have had anything to do with that.

[Warren Hillsdon]

Hi,

I just installed Fedora 2 and found I had a problem connecting with my Outlook to my Pop3 server. I had installed Dovecot and I know IMAP is working as I can telnet to the port and squirrelmail is working OK.

Where do I enable POP3?

Thanks
Warren

[Vernon Brown_4]

Warren; I think you will get better responses if you start your own thread so that you can assign points when folks help.

Just click "New Message" instead of "Reply"