notes on qpopper
Note that older versions of qpopper are vulernable to attacks: http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/#BUFFER
As
I recover from my failed upgrade to 2.2.7, I noticed that my
pop server wasn’t running. After checking the manual, I noticed that I need the
following entry in /etc/inetd.conf:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/qpopper qpopper
Note that this also works (i.e. popper instead of qpopper in the last field):
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/qpopper popper
Then you need to restart popper by doing:
kill -1 <pid>
where pid is the process id of inetd as found by
ps -auwx | grep inetd
An update (added on 24 February 2004)
My thanks to Daniel Faubel for making sure the above was up to date.