popa3d-users - Re: simple question?

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:35:14 +0100 (CET)
From: Camiel Dobbelaar <cd@...tia.nl>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: simple question?

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, phaser-X wrote:
> If i run /usr/local/sbin/popa3d, it accepts my username and password, list
> shows all my emails, i can read, delete, etc..  But once i create
> /etc/xinetd.d/pop3, restart xinetd.d, telnet to the listen address port
> 110, i get connection refused .. Here's what my xinetd.d/pop3 file reads:

> 	user		= popa3d

popa3d has to be started as root.  It needs to check passwords, and then
drop to the correct user to be able to read their mailbox.

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Cam