I installed the imap RPM that comes with SUSE 9.1 Pro. How do I setup & start the pop3 server so people can log in and download their mail? I have gone through YAST and SYSV Level editor and I can't find anything. I used to use dovecot on FC3 so that is my reference point for running a mail server on Linux.
I installed the imap RPM that comes with SUSE 9.1 Pro. How do I setup & start the pop3 server so people can log in and download their mail? I have gone through YAST and SYSV Level editor and I can't find anything. I used to use dovecot on FC3 so that is my reference point for running a mail server on Linux. Yast>Network Services>Network Services (inetd)> enable pop3. Warning, imap changed in 2002 to only allow plaintext passwords via an ssl encrypted connection. I have found it easier to get pop3s going. Check
Keith wrote: the support database (search for imaps). If you only need pop3, and don't mind the insecure plaintext passwords being passed through the network, you can use qpopper. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
imap changed in 2002 to only allow plaintext passwords via an ssl encrypted connection. I have found it easier to get pop3s going. Check the support database (search for imaps). If you only need pop3, and don't mind the insecure plaintext passwords being passed through the network, you can use qpopper. HTH
I'm confused. Is the pop3 servier installed with SuSE 9.3 worthless without ssl or ldap? When I turn on pop and use evolution, the logs indicated that no user was sent, but when I used fetchmail with verbose, it looks like it doesn't accecpt USER authentication. Ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://fairuse.nylxs.com "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn....
Ruben Safir wrote:
[snip] I'm confused. Is the pop3 servier installed with SuSE 9.3 worthless without ssl or ldap? When I turn on pop and use evolution, the logs indicated that no user was sent, but when I used fetchmail with verbose, it looks like it doesn't accecpt USER authentication.
I use the standard pop3 server on my home machine. It is compiled to allow ssl-logins only, so you'll need to issue a certificate for it and work off, I think, port 995 et al. Instructions for this are in the SuSE knowledgebase or, possibly, on your HD under /usr/share/doc/packages/imap/README.SuSE which covers both pop3 and imap. Alternatively, use a server that is compiled to work in the old plain text way. :) Fish
Ruben Safir wrote:
I'm confused. Is the pop3 servier installed with SuSE 9.3 worthless without ssl or ldap? When I turn on pop and use evolution, the logs indicated that no user was sent, but when I used fetchmail with verbose, it looks like it doesn't accecpt USER authentication. IIRC, since 8.2 the imap package (UW imap, with both a pop server and imap server) has disabled plaintext password authentication for security reasons. Though I have heard of possibilities of getting it working without rebuilding to accept plaintext (BTW, this was not a SuSE thing but a change with the UW imap programmers), for my 8.2 server I rebuilt (and accepted the risk during the build), for all others I moved to ssl. It works fine with ssl, and making the certificate is easy enough with the SuSE helpfile. For the record, my 8.2 is open only for pop from the LAN, so decided it was easier to rebuild than have all our users change to use ssl. That will change when I update that server to 9.3. So, to answer your questions, it is hardly worthless without, but AFAIK it will NOT work with plaintext passwords. My advice, make an ssl certificate, and have the users access via pop3s, port 995. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
9.3. So, to answer your questions, it is hardly worthless without, but AFAIK it will NOT work with plaintext passwords. My advice, make an ssl certificate, and have the users access via pop3s, port 995. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients? Ruben
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On Monday 02 May 2005 04:14, Ruben Safir wrote:
9.3. So, to answer your questions, it is hardly worthless without, but AFAIK it will NOT work with plaintext passwords. My advice, make an ssl certificate, and have the users access via pop3s, port 995. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients?
How do you do it with https? When the connection is opened, the server sends its public key to the client and the client sends its public key to the server, and then each side encrypts with its secret key. The only distribution problems arise if you want to be able to verify the certificates. Anders PS. Please trim your signature. 17 lines is just a little over the top
Hi Ruben, On Sun, 1 May 2005 22:14:30 -0400 UTC (5/1/2005, 9:14 PM -0600 UTC my time), Ruben Safir wrote: R> How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients? like you would any other txt file... either by email, publish it internally on Apache, make a floppy disk, make an OO file in an internal public domain dir, well... you get the idea. -- Gary
Ruben Safir wrote:
How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients?
You don't need to. Their client will prompt them if they want to accept the certificate, which they should obviously, then things work as before. It is a simple process. You just need to make the certificate, i.e. if it is for pop3s, I would call it ipop3d.pem in /etc/ssl/certs, make sure pop3s is started in xinetd, and your server side is good to go. When the clients connect via ssl (995), they will be presented with the certificate, which they should accept permanently, and it is seamless after that. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 22:14 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients?
Ruben
Ruben, Can you please fix either your clock and/or timezone setting. I am showing your mail as four hours into the future. Also there is no need to reply to the poster and the list. The list will do just fine. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Monday 02 May 2005 00:46, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 22:14 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients?
Ruben
Ruben,
Can you please fix either your clock and/or timezone setting. I am showing your mail as four hours into the future.
Also there is no need to reply to the poster and the list. The list will do just fine.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Cool whats it like in the future, do cars fly yet ? I can't wait let me set my clock too! -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:47 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
On Monday 02 May 2005 00:46, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 22:14 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
How do you distrubute the SSL public key to all the clients?
Ruben
Ruben,
Can you please fix either your clock and/or timezone setting. I am showing your mail as four hours into the future.
Also there is no need to reply to the poster and the list. The list will do just fine.
Cool whats it like in the future, do cars fly yet ? I can't wait let me set my clock too!
Not yet but I have read at theregister.com about that happening soon. :) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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