Is this the best way to get dovecot's pop3 process to run under xinetd? This is what I did after I installed postfix and dovecot. I am using Debian. I am using the dovecot local delivery agent.

---------first the dovecot configuration and version information------------------ dovecot -n output:

# /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail

grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf output: driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=mailuser password=XXXXXX default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM view_users WHERE email='%u';

dovecot --version: 1.0.rc15

1. created a file dovecot-pop3 under /etc/xinetd.d with this content: service pop3 { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no server = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login user = root }

2. Terminated the dovecot master process #kill -TERM <pid of dovecot>

3. Restarted xinetd #/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

4. telnet'ed to pop3 port. Because I am using the dovecot local delivery agent, postfix needs the dovecot master process and its associated processes already first running; otherwise, postfix will not be able to use the dovecot local delivery agent.

#telent localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to krueckeberg.org. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. quit +OK Logging out quit

Regards, Kurt