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List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: vpopmail + qmail
From:       Christian Wiese <cw () 4ix ! net>
Date:       2000-05-30 19:10:18
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Hi Clemens,

thank you for your suggestions.
You're right. Surely it will be better to add "pop-3" to the /etcservices
insteed of changing pop3 to pop-3.
Anyway, I think the provided informations will help Toni to solve his problem.

greetings

christian

clemensF schrieb:

> > Christian Wiese:
>
> > please tell us what kind of qmail package and what Linux distribution do
> > you use.
> > On some systems the POP3 service in /etc/services is called pop3, but
> > qmail-pop3d uses pop-3.
> > So please have a look at the /etc/services and check out what is writen
> > there under port 110.
> > If there is an entry like pop3 change it to pop-3 and try to run your
> > qmail-pop3d server again.
>
> wow!  you almost had me there, mr. wiese.  barely had i finished reading
> your posting, when the times found me digging thru qmail, ucspi-tcp and the
> daemontools.  i realized that nowhere does the source depend on internal
> name<->service-port guessing.  as a matter of fact somewhere in the first
> lines of tcpserver.c/main the service name/number is scanned and handed to
> getservbyname, which eventually (might) return the tcp port to watch.
>
> but your advice is to the point, i just want to add that it might be saver
> not to *change* these lines in /etc/services, but to *add* them:  programs
> might appear which insist on looking for the name `pop3'.
>
> > e.g. /etc/services
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > pop-3            110/tcp         pop-3           # POP version 3
> > pop-3            110/udp        pop-3
> > -------------------------------------------
>
> -------------------------------------------
> pop-3            110/tcp         pop-3           # POP version 3
> pop-3            110/udp         pop-3
> pop3             110/tcp         pop-3           # POP version 3
> pop3             110/udp         pop-3
> -------------------------------------------
>
> --
> Valerian Q. Farthingsworthe-Jones III

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