* On 09/07/06 12:32 -0700, kyrrin@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 DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." -- J. Paul Getty