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Re: one last mail related question...




> to allow pop3 on redhat, you use the imap daemon correct?

No.  IMAP and POP3 are different services and use sperate daemons, which is
good.  (I say this is good for personal reasons; "utility knifing" server
applications is generally not a great idea.)
 
> Mar 30 20:00:44 cjm PAM_pwdb[1808]: 1 authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
> charles for imap service
> Mar 30 20:00:44 cjm ipop3d[1808]: Login failure user=charles
> host=user-37kagjs.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.66.124]
> Mar 30 20:00:47 cjm ipop3d[1808]: No such file or directory while reading
> line user=charles host=user-37kagjs.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.66.124]
>
> I am using shadow passwords. I have my client set up as connecting to a
> POP server, when I set it up as connecting to an IMAP server, I get no
> response. 

OK, the above is a touch strange.  I'd recommend manually attempting to use
the POP3 server via telnet.  Here's an example manual POP3 connection:

bastion:~$ telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK bastion POP3 Server (Version 1.005l) ready at <Tue Mar 30 23:51:45 1999>
user damacus
pass yahright
+OK 14 messages ready for damacus in /usr/spool/mail/damacus
list
1 1027
2 2042  (...etc)
retr 1
+OK message 1 (1707 octets):
X-POP3-Rcpt: damacus@bastion
Return-Path: <jp@antionline.com>
(etc...)
-----

See how far you're able to get.  Can you log in?  Can you read any messages?

> finally got the local mail delivery to work using procmail, however, the
> path written to the .cf file /usr/local/bin/procmail is incorrect
> (/usr/bin/procmail). Can i specify the path in the .mc file or do i need
> to go in and edit the .cf by hand?

As a man of ease, just edit the file by hand.  Here's the pertaining lines
from my .cf:

bastion:~$ grep procmai /etc/sendmail.cf -2
#####  @(#)local.m4     8.30 (Berkeley) 6/30/98  #####

Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qShP, S=10/30, R=20/40,
                T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
                A=procmail -a $h -d $u
Mprog,          P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
                T=X-Unix,

Hope that helped....

--Mike

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