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- POPFile SSL Setup wizard for Windows v0.0.10 ReadMe 3 December 2004
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- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Patch to speed up SSL operations
- SSL Configuration
- Do not use "forking"
- Capturing POPFile error messages
- Capturing POPFile error messages (Win9x Instructions)
- Finding the POPFile files
- AddSSL log report
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- INTRODUCTION
-
- The Windows installer for POPFile 0.22.x does not install the files required
- to provide SSL support.
-
- This wizard has been provided to make it easy to download and add all of the
- necessary extra Perl components and OpenSSL DLLs to an existing POPFile 0.22
- installation.
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- PATCH TO SPEED UP SSL OPERATIONS
-
- The Module.pm file distributed with POPFile 0.22.0 results in EXTREMELY SLOW
- message downloading so this utility automatically patches the module to make
- it match the version which is distributed with the 0.22.1 release. This patch
- makes SSL operation work at a similar speed to non-SSL operation. The original
- Module.pm file will be backed up as Module.pm.bk1 (in the same folder).
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- SSL CONFIGURATION
-
- This version of the wizard does not attempt to configure any email accounts
- to use SSL; it simply adds the necessary SSL support files to an existing
- setup. To change a POPFile-enabled account to use SSL, change the
- "servername:username" string to "servername:995:username:ssl"
-
- Please note that the SSL connection is between POPFile and the mail server,
- so do not configure the mail client to use SSL for this account.
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- DO NOT USE "FORKING"
-
- If "Allow concurrent POP3 connections" shows "No" on the Configuration page
- in the UI then "forking" is disabled (this is the default setting).
-
- If you have enabled forking, please disable it (otherwise POPFile will crash
- when accessing any SSL-enabled accounts).
-
- To disable forking, change the "Allow concurrent POP3 connections" setting
- from "Yes" to "No" on the Configuration page, or change the "pop3_force_fork"
- parameter on the Advanced page in the UI from "1" to "0", or shutdown POPFile
- and edit the "pop3_force_fork" setting in the popfile.cfg file (0 = disabled)
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- CAPTURING POPFILE ERROR MESSAGES
-
- Since this is an experimental wizard, you are recommended to use POPFile's
- console mode when you run POPFile so you will be able to see any error
- messages output by POPFile.
-
- An easy way to temporarily run POPFile in console mode without changing any
- configuration settings is to use the 'msgcapture.exe' program to run POPFile
- instead of the normal 'runpopfile.exe' program. The 'msgcapture.exe' program
- can be found in the same folder as 'runpopfile.exe'. Use the command
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- msgcapture.exe /timeout=0
-
- (that is a zero not a letter O at the end of the command) to ensure the
- msgcapture.exe program waits for POPFile to shut down or terminate.
-
- The Message Capture Utility (msgcapture.exe) will display the POPFile console
- messages in a scrollable window and allow you to save them in a text file by
- right-clicking inside that window - this makes it easy to report any messages
- which result from problems with the SSL support installed by this wizard.
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- CAPTURING POPFILE ERROR MESSAGES (Win9x INSTRUCTIONS)
-
- On Win9x you should use the 'pfi-run.bat' batch file in the 'User Data'
- folder instead of using 'msgcapture.exe' (the batch file sets up the
- necessary environment data before running the 'msgcapture.exe /timeout=0'
- command).
-
- An easy way to run this batch file is to double-click its icon. A DOS box
- should appear briefly, followed by the window for the "POPFile Message
- Capture Utility".
-
- If all you see is a DOS box popping up and instantly disappearing (with no
- Message Capture Utility window appearing), you will need to allocate some
- more environment space for the batch file.
-
- To do this, right-click the pfi-run.bat icon, select "Properties", select the
- "Memory" tab and look at the "Initial environment" value (at the top right).
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- If the setting is "Auto", select "512" from the list, click "Apply" then "OK".
- If the setting is not "Auto" then select a higher value (e.g. if it says "512"
- then change it to "768").
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- After increasing the environment space, double-click the pfi-run.bat icon to
- start the POPFile Message Capture Utility.
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- FINDING THE POPFILE FILES
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- If you are not sure where the POPFile program files and/or the 'User Data'
- files are stored, use the following Start Menu shortcut to find out:
-
- Start -> Programs -> POPFile -> Support -> PFI Diagnostic utility (simple)
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- ADDSSL LOG REPORT
-
- A timestamped log file (addssl.log) is created in the POPFile program folder
- listing the actions performed by the POPFile SSL Setup wizard.
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- This product downloads software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in
- the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)
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- CHANGE HISTORY:
-
- 03-Dec-04 (v0.0.10) Suppress the patch status message box when the Module.pm
- version is neither 1.40 nor 1.41 (to avoid confusion)
-
- 29-Oct-04 (v0.0.9) Source code size greatly reduced by making it "include"
- the main PFI library. The ReadMe now mentions that forking
- should be disabled.
-
- 19-Oct-04 (v0.0.8) Source files (slightly rearranged) are now in CVS. Now
- using getpopfile.org as the POPFile homepage address.
- Revised this ReadMe file.
-
- 28-Sep-04 (v0.0.7) The wizard now patches Module.pm (if necessary) to upgrade
- it to v1.41 to solve the extremely slow SSL mail transfer
- problem.
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- 14-Sep-04 (v0.0.6) Revised these notes (some account configuration information
- added, mentioned the /timeout=0 option and explained how to
- increase the Win9x environment space for pfi-run.bat)
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- 08-Sep-04 (v0.0.5) Added build instructions to the header comment.
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- 08-Sep-04 (v0.0.4) Revised ReadMe and WELCOME page text.
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- 08-Sep-04 (v0.0.3) Improved WELCOME page text and progress/log messages.
-
- 06-Sep-04 (v0.0.2) Improved reporting of downloads.
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- 06-Sep-04 (v0.0.1) First public release.
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- Brian Smith (xuesheng@users.sourceforge.net)
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- POPFile (Bleeding Edge - Source Code) Discussion Forum
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=230652
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