Subject: Re: POP3 won't start
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 11:54:09 AKST
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 augustus@acerbic.org wrote:
> POP3 doesn't run as a deamon, it's run from inetd and activated only when
> a POP3 client makes a connection to port 110. You'll need to add
> something like this to your /etc/inetd.conf file:
> pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/popper popper
Actually, popper can be run as a standalone daemon. This is nice with
very active pop3 servers because you eliminate the overhead of using
inetd. It's not very useful on the average server though.
> the last bit should point to where you have installed popper. You'll also
> need to make sure that tcpwrappers will allow pop3 connections from
> everyone. Add the following to /etc/hosts.allow
> popper:ALL
Ahh--but the nice thing about FreeBSD is that tcp wrappers is
automatically used with inetd. No need to specify /usr/sbin/tcpd on every
line. For example, the following is the pop3 line from my FreeBSD-4.4 box:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper popper
Notice that the "/usr/sbin/tcpd" is missing.
Mike
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