Re: ftp needed for pop3?!

[charles@lunargraphics.net]

Well, that is too bad, I thought i was going to find out something new. 8)
Problem is, I am back to square one. Still can't get authentication to
work for POP3. I am going to try pwunconv and see if that works,
otherwise, look forward to my next post ;)

C J Menzes
Lunar Graphics Inc.
www.lunargraphics.net
charles.lunargraphics.net

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> charles@lunargraphics.net said:
> > I found this on Redhat's knowledge base:
> > 
> > pop-3 comes with the imap package. You can pick up the latest at
> > ftp.redhat.comin the updates directory of the distribution that you have.
> > Install it using
> > rpm -Uvh and make sure you have a line like the following in your
> > /etc/inetd.conf file:
> > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
> > Then, kill -HUP the process number for inetd (you can find this out by
> > typing ps aux |grep inetd), and it should work fine. If you have problems,
> > you will want to check your /var/log/messages file after HUPing the inetd. 
> > 
> > Is this correct? 
> 
> No.  :-)
> 
> Try
> 
>     pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
> 
> in /etc/inetd.conf, then just "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`" (or
> just "killall -HUP inetd").
> 
> Steve
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