[gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

[gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

[Hartmut Figge]

Greetings,

first some history. qpopper was masked a long time ago now but is still
installed and working on my Gentoo. Even if it doesn't show up anymore
on eix. But it does on eix-test-obsolete.

I don't like this situation and would like to get rid of qpopper and
replace it with another package. Nothing fancy, only to allow clients to
use POP3 on localhost.

Looking at the possibilities it seems I have to use popa3d which I know
nothing about. Experiments would be tricky because first I would have to
remove qpopper and would then have lost the current ability to use POP3.
And if there are difficulties with popa3d... ;)

Suggestions?

Hartmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

[Paul Colquhoun]

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On Monday, October 14, 2019 5:46:46 P.M. AEDT Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> first some history. qpopper was masked a long time ago now but is still
> installed and working on my Gentoo. Even if it doesn't show up anymore
> on eix. But it does on eix-test-obsolete.
> 
> I don't like this situation and would like to get rid of qpopper and
> replace it with another package. Nothing fancy, only to allow clients to
> use POP3 on localhost.
> 
> Looking at the possibilities it seems I have to use popa3d which I know
> nothing about. Experiments would be tricky because first I would have to
> remove qpopper and would then have lost the current ability to use POP3.
> And if there are difficulties with popa3d... ;)
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Hartmut


I used to use qpopper until 2 or 3 years ago.

Now i use net-mail/tpop3d

It's entice config file is:

# cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf 
listen-address: 127.0.0.1
mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user)
auth-pam-enable: true
auth-pam-mail-group: mail


It runs as a service, started from systemd.


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[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for qpopper

[Hartmut Figge]

Paul Colquhoun:
>On Monday, October 14, 2019 5:46:46 P.M. AEDT Hartmut Figge wrote:

>I used to use qpopper until 2 or 3 years ago.
>
>Now i use net-mail/tpop3d

I had not considered this one because no stable version is available and
my Gentoo is mostly stable.

>It's entice config file is:
>
># cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf 
>listen-address: 127.0.0.1
>mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user)
>auth-pam-enable: true
>auth-pam-mail-group: mail

That looks nice.

>It runs as a service, started from systemd.

No systemd here.

Thanks. I will wait a while for possible other replies.

Hartmut

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for qpopper

[Hartmut Figge]

Paul Colquhoun:

>I used to use qpopper until 2 or 3 years ago.
>
>Now i use net-mail/tpop3d

I dared to remove qpopper and instal tpop3d.

>It's entice config file is:
>
># cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf 
>listen-address: 127.0.0.1
>mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user)
>auth-pam-enable: true
>auth-pam-mail-group: mail

I have stolen that and it works for me.

>It runs as a service, started from systemd.

'qlist tpop3d' shows '/etc/init.d/tpop3d' so I set a symlink from
runlevels/default to that. I know, I know there is a Gentoo command to
do that but I didn't remember. Setting the symlink was the easy way. ;)

Thanks once more.

Hartmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for qpopper

[Mick]

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On Monday, 14 October 2019 14:25:33 BST Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Paul Colquhoun:
> >I used to use qpopper until 2 or 3 years ago.
> >
> >Now i use net-mail/tpop3d
> 
> I dared to remove qpopper and instal tpop3d.
> 
> >It's entice config file is:
> >
> ># cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf
> >listen-address: 127.0.0.1
> >mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user)
> >auth-pam-enable: true
> >auth-pam-mail-group: mail
> 
> I have stolen that and it works for me.
> 
> >It runs as a service, started from systemd.
> 
> 'qlist tpop3d' shows '/etc/init.d/tpop3d' so I set a symlink from
> runlevels/default to that. I know, I know there is a Gentoo command to
> do that but I didn't remember. Setting the symlink was the easy way. ;)
> 
> Thanks once more.
> 
> Hartmut

TBH I also tend to set symlinks manually (old dog, new tricks), but there are 
the ever so easy gentoo commands of eselect and rc-update:

eselect rc add tpop3d default

Or,

rc-update add tpop3d default

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Regards,

Mick

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