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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:54:18 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jim Mirick <jrmpublic@...thlink.net>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: connecting via Thunderbird
Uwe Dippel <udippel@...> writes:
>
> Jim Mirick wrote:
>
> > A little more diagnosis: /var/log/messages has some things from popa3d, as
> > when I log on as root and then execute popa3d from the command line to
> > look at my mailbox (I say USER JRM etc.).
>
> Amazing. Now everything is through and said ... .
>
> Do we agree on some basics here ? Does RHEL eventually start popa3d by
> default ? can you do some 'ps ax | grep pop' before and after you start it ?
>
> And then, what does "I can connect via command line" mean ? what do you
> type ? Be specific, please !
>
> Did you try to telnet from the client (the one you run Thunderbird on)
> to the server ?
>
> What distro does the client (the one running Thunderbird) use ? Also
> RedHat ?
> It might help you could install nmap on that machine and then issue some
> 'nmap -v 123.123.123.123' (replace 123.123.123.123 with the IP of the
> server).
>
> And add the 'some things from popa3d' for us to see, please !
>
> > However, if I log on to Linux as JRM and try to execute popa3d it says
> > "command not found", even if I cd to /usr/sbin where the executable is.
>
> Try to run it as root, instead !
>
> By now I could as well suggest to de-install and purge all configuration
> (no idea how to do on RedHat, sorry), and install from scratch.
>
> > So I suspect there is a permissions problem. I have changed the permissions
> > for popa3d in /usr/sbin to "everybody can execute" it still won't execute it
> > for anybody except root.
>
> That sits on another sheet of paper. root is the correct user to execute
> popa3d for the time and purpose being.
>
> > Is there a config file for popa3d somewhere? I can't find one. How does it
> > know what to do?
>
> I don't know about RedHat, but it doesn't need one, basically. It
> 'knows' what to do: read from the mail-spool on request on port 110.
>
> HTH,
>
> Uwe
>
>
I appologize again for being a Unix newbie and thank you for your patience.
In order of importance:
1. nmap reports that port 110 is not open, after considering it I just tried
"service popa3d start" and voila it now says started. I reran nmap and there
it is, port 110 open. So I go back to the client at it all now works. I can
now breathe again. Glad I had a Fedora box to run this from! My t-bird is
on a Windows box.
2. I guess it has to be manually started, as does postfix, if I reboot. I
was fooled because I could go in as root and enter popa3d and it responds
+OK and then I can enter commands such as USER etc. So, I thought it
was started, obviously not.
3. All of the documentation I have on this is the MAN output so - in effect
- I didn't realize how simple it was. I didn't know to treat it as a service,
I just guessed; I suppose its obvious to everybody else but not me.
Thank you all again for all your help, this is a cute little piece of
software, I am so used to MS bloatware and I don't know how to deal with
something this straightforward.
jim
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