mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

[Franco Martelli]

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
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[Tim Woodall]

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.

[rhkr...@gmail.com]

[Franco Martelli]

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/... ?

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Franco Martelli

[rhkr...@gmail.com]

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

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:01:40 +0100
Franco Martelli <marte...@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.

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[Tim Woodall]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote:

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.

[pa...@quillandmouse.com]

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
bi...@clifford.mydomain and he uses the same password as his user on
clifford.mydomain.

Paul

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[Dieter Rohlfing]

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

>I use popa3d.

Me too. popa3d is simple, small and effective.

Dieter

[Franco Martelli]

On 26/01/22 at 03:39, pa...@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
> bi...@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.

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[pa...@quillandmouse.com]

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