[Dovecot] New User: POP3 issues

[Odhiambo WASHINGTON]

* On 09/07/06 12:32 -0700, kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com wrote:
| Fellow dovecot'ers,
| 
| I'm just getting started with Dovecot, and I'm not a programmer, so please be 
| gentle. ;-)
| 
| THE PLATFORM: NetBSD 3.0/SPARC, Postfix 2.3-RC8, current Dovecot RC (I 
| forgot the number). Maildir-type directories.
| 
| THE GOAL: To accommodate authenticated (remote) POP3 users with APOP or 
| SSL/TLS, and allow users on the internal network (192.168.x.x) to just use basic 
| POP3 without worrying about authentication.
| 
| QUESTIONS:
| 
| (1) Does the dovecot master daemon have to be running in order to call pop3-
| login from inetd, in response to POP connection attempts? If so, it could be a 
| problem. I'm getting this error when I try to start the thing.
| 
| featherweb: {339} /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
| Fatal: listen(110) failed: Address already in use
| featherweb: {340}

That means another daemon is already using/listening on port 110. Check 
if another pop3 daemon is installed and running and disable it!

| (2) For apop authentication, how do I go about generating the shared secret file 
| locally, for each user? Is there a script that came with dovecot or...?

I have never done apop auth so I have no answer. You could try the options
in the wiki - 

http://wiki.dovecot.org/PopBSMTPAndDovecot
http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html

[you could get one or two clues. I am sure apop is not the only option 
you want]


| (3) Is there a trick, similar to postfix's 'postconf -n,' that will give a condensed 
| output of dovecot's configuration file?

egrep -v '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)' /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf


| (4) I'm currently using sasl auth for Postfix's SMTP auth function. How difficult is it 
| to use Dovecot for the same thing?

I have not done it, but I use Exim, not Postfix.


| (5) GAAAAHHHHH! (Just on general principles, based on the hours I've spent 
| trying to get everything working).

Have you checked the wiki for many hours, amongst those you've spent, did you spend
reading the documentation/tips on the Dovecot Wiki?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/

-Wash


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