Re: fetchmail as a POP3 server

Completely unrelated to postfix, and ...

As far as I know, fetchmail is only a POP client, not a server, which explains
why you can't find any information about setting it up as a server. It can run
in the background and fetch your mail every n seconds, but it doesn't accept
connections on port 110 from the outside world and act as a server.

Josh


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:41:02PM -0800 Lox Thomson <loxodont@gmail.com> said:
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> I setup my postfix/sasl and everything is working great. I'm on a RedHat
> FC2 machine. When I installed it forced the installation of sendmail and
> fetchmail. I force rpm uninstalled sendmail...that seemed to have deleted
> the fetchmail server information within /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. Now I
> can't start the fetchmail server. I have set aside today to get this
> running. Astonishingly enough, I go out searching and fetchmail info on the
> net exclusively explains how to use fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 server
> but never how to set it up AS a POP3 server. Can someone help me?
> Fetchmail POP3 is satisfactory for me....I need this server up and running.
> I hate to have to try to setup IMAP from scratch at this point...maybe
> later.
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> What I am asking for is:
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> What are the contents of the fetchmail file within the /etc/rc.d/init.d
> directory on a REdhat9, FC1, FC2, or FC3 server?
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> Where on the net or can you provide me instructions, on how to setup
> fetchmail as a POP3 server?
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> I have fetchmail 6.2.5-2 installed by rpm by fedora core 2.
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> Any quick explaination would be really helpful.
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> Thanks,
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> -Lox
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> admin for action-unltd.com