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- From: barrett@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov (Jim Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: POP3 Mail Server Setup
- Message-ID: <34604@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 15:35:27 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- In article <1992Dec7.193927.2303@alw.nih.gov> Edward Suh,
- suh@rainbow.dcrt.nih.gov writes:
- >Could someone tell me how to seup pop3 mail server on the
- >SGI (4.0.5)?
-
- Here's how:
-
- 1) Obtain the source code to popper from ftp.cc.berkeley.edu
- (128.32.136.12) via anonymous ftp. It's in the /pub/popper
- directory, and the file you want is popper-1.831beta.tar.Z
-
-
- 2) Compile it. You'll have to fix the Makefile before it will compile.
-
-
- 3) Take the executable file 'popper' and put it someplace like
- /usr/local/bin, or wherever you store local programs.
-
-
- 4) Edit the file /etc/services, and put the following line in there:
-
- pop3 110/tcp # Post Office, version 3
-
- Check to make sure there's not already a reference to pop3 in there.
- If there is, make sure it agrees with the above. If not, replace it
- (but comment out the old line, don't delete it).
-
-
- 5) Edit the file /usr/etc/inetd.conf, and put the following line in
- there:
-
- pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper popper
-
- Note that you should use the path of your popper program, which may
- not be /usr/local/bin/popper. That's just where I've put mine.
-
-
- 6) Use the 'ps -ef | fgrep inetd' command to find out the process id
- number of inetd. Issue the command 'kill -HUP nnnn', where nnnn is
- the process id number of inetd. This tells inetd to re-read it's
- configuration file.
-
- Presto! All done!
-
- You will find that popper generates a *large* number of messages that
- appear in /usr/adm/SYSLOG. We have so many people using pop3 mail
- clients that the log messages became a problem (and we never found
- the log useful). So we gutted the poplog function in the pop_log.c
- file in the popper distribution.
-
- Best of luck!
-
- --
- Jim Barrett barrett@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov
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