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- From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
- Subject: Re: Popper for A/UX
- Message-ID: <sdorner-111292143142@0.0.0.0>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec9.110501.14822@ugle.unit.no> <1992Dec11.091553.7813@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:42:11 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Dec11.091553.7813@ugle.unit.no>, trondk@zevs.ifi.unit.no
- (Trond Kandal) wrote:
- > After some investigation I have found out that this popper only use port
- > 109,- why ?
-
- popper is run from /etc/servers (which I am disgusted to find is like
- /etc/inetd.conf only braindead, but I digress). In /etc/servers you
- specify the service name. In /etc/services ("ices", not "ers"), you
- specify service names and port numbers. This is what the entries look like
- on my system:
-
- /etc/servers:pop3 tcp /usr/local/etc/popper
- /etc/services:pop3 110/tcp
-
- > Eudora wouldn't work either,- could this be the problem ( using the wrong port ) ?
-
- Yes.
-
- Now, there are two gotchas with popper. One, it uses flock, not .lock
- files. At least, that's how Berkeley distributes it; if you get one
- someone has already ported to A/UX, they may have changed it. You need to
- be sure that /bin/mail (or whatever your local mailer is) and popper agree
- on how to do locking, or you're asking for trouble.
-
- My solution was to replace /bin/mail and sendmail with IDA sendmail and bsd
- /bin/mail; others might choose to make popper understand .lock locking.
-
- (By the way, if all of this scares you, you should get help. There is deep
- magic here, and if you're not careful you'll wind up losing mail.)
-
- Finally, I haven't been able to get popper to work completely correctly.
- Specifically, it seems to be unable to copy mail back into the system
- maildrop, preferring instead to dump core. Unless, of course, I run it
- under dbx, in which case it's happy as a clam. (Sigh.) I will admit,
- however, to not having had the motivation to work on it for a long time.
-
- If you want to use Eudora, this chiefly affects the "Leave Mail On Server"
- and "Skip Big Messages" options; if you leave those off, things work pretty
- normally.
- --
- Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
-