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  mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2022-01-25 16:40 +0100
    Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-01-25 19:50 +0100
      Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-25 20:10 +0100
      Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-25 20:10 +0100
      Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2022-01-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-25 22:30 +0100
        Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-01-25 23:30 +0100
    Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-26 03:50 +0100
      Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Dieter Rohlfing <dr-erc@gmx.net> - 2022-01-26 12:10 +0100
      Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2022-01-26 14:00 +0100
        Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-26 14:40 +0100

#244596 — mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

Hi,

I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my 
user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How 
to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance

[1] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=151251
-- 
Franco Martelli

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#244602

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my user 
> mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How to 
> accomplish this?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> [1] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=151251
>

I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d
but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3.

Tim.

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#244603

On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 01:46:15 PM Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my
> > user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How
> > to accomplish this?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > [1] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=151251
> 
> I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d
> but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3.
> 
> Tim.

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#244604

Oops, sorry about that, clicked send before writing anything -- and now, 
reading the question more carefully, I have no comment -- sorry for the noise 
;-)

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote:
> > I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read my
> > user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible? How
> > to accomplish this?

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#244605

On 25/01/22 at 19:46, Tim Woodall wrote:
> 
> I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d
> but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3.
> 
> Tim.
> 

mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it.
Do you know if dovecot have access to system email stored in /var/mail/... ?

-- 
Franco Martelli

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#244609

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:01:40 +0100
Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> wrote:

> mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it.
> Do you know if dovecot have access to system email stored in
> /var/mail/... ?

Indeed, it does. That is exactly what I use it for. I don't recall
doing any special setup for it.

-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

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https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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#244611

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote:

> On 25/01/22 at 19:46, Tim Woodall wrote:
>> 
>> I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d
>> but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3.
>> 
>> Tim.
>> 
>
> mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it.
> Do you know if dovecot have access to system email stored in /var/mail/... ?
>
>

Yes. I use mbox in /var/mail and Maildir in /home. Both work.

I vaguely recall that getting this setup like this was a bit of effort
but there were a lot of moving parts I needed to update when I moved
from mbox to Maildir in dovecot. I think I was able to copy everything
from one format to the other using dovecot, imap and alpine but it was a
while ago.

(And the reason I changed was mbox was causing large incremental
backups. I haven't noticed any difference in performance etc so I have
no comment on which is better unless you have 'archive' masilboxes that
trigger 200MB of incremental backups each time you add a single 2k
email)

Tim.

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#244615

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:39:22 +0100
Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I posted a question on Debian User Forums [1]. What I need is to read
> my user mailbox (/var/mail/myuser) via a pop3 daemon, is it possible?
> How to accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> [1] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=151251

I use popa3d. It assumes email addresses of myuser@mydomain, with the
same email password as the user's password on the system. No setup
required. User billw on clifford.mydomain has an email of
billw@clifford.mydomain and he uses the same password as his user on
clifford.mydomain.

Paul

-- 
Paul M. Foster
http://noferblatz.com
http://quillandmouse.com

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#244620

Am Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:39:36 -0500
schrieb <paulf@quillandmouse.com>:

>I use popa3d.

Me too. popa3d is simple, small and effective.

Dieter

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#244621

On 26/01/22 at 03:39, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> 
> I use popa3d. It assumes email addresses of myuser@mydomain, with the
> same email password as the user's password on the system. No setup
> required. User billw on clifford.mydomain has an email of
> billw@clifford.mydomain and he uses the same password as his user on
> clifford.mydomain.
> 
> Paul
> 
Does popa3d require to setup TLS? I didn't need to encrypt the email a 
mail server that it listens to 110 port it is fine for me.

-- 
Franco Martelli

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#244622

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:55:46 +0100
Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/01/22 at 03:39, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> > 
> > I use popa3d. It assumes email addresses of myuser@mydomain, with
> > the same email password as the user's password on the system. No
> > setup required. User billw on clifford.mydomain has an email of
> > billw@clifford.mydomain and he uses the same password as his user on
> > clifford.mydomain.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> Does popa3d require to setup TLS? I didn't need to encrypt the email
> a mail server that it listens to 110 port it is fine for me.
> 

As far as I know, there's no encryption.

Paul

-- 
Paul M. Foster
http://noferblatz.com
http://quillandmouse.com

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