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Re: Mail Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Mon Nov 9 20:02:18 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:47:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> Try to telnet to the POP3 port to verify the daemon is running and
> accepting connections:
>
> telnet linuxbox 110
>
> You should get a POP3 banner. If that works you can either QUIT or login
> and retreive a message:
>
> +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at host.domain starting.
> user johndoe
> +OK Password required for johndoe.
> pass MyPassword
> +OK johndoe has 16 messages (103408 octets).
> stat
> +OK 16 103408
> retr 1
> (server transmits message terminated by a period on a line by itself)
> quit
>
> If you run into problems at any point let us know what the error message
> is. On my relatively stock RH5.1 system, the mail spool permission is 775.
> The mailboxes are 660 except root's, which is 600. I don't konw enough
> about using IMAP to be of any help with that.
IMAP is a bit like telnet in the way you have to think. When you set
up an IMAP client you have to tell it where the mail files are. All
of the M$ OS clients are a bit different in the way they're set up
but they'll all have one thing in common if you select IMAP as your
protocol... there will be some sort of a path box where you can enter
a string which is the path to the users mail files relative to "/".
I ran a GUI IMAP lcient for a while and I was using procmail on the
Linux box to sort my mail. The path I used was "/home/chuck/Mail".
Cheers!
--
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
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