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From: fen@comedia.com (Fen Labalme)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: I need some mail help; sendmail and unix as a pop3 client
Date: 15 Feb 1995 16:51:00 GMT
Organization: Broadcatch Technologies
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Message-ID: <fen-1502950851410001@lust.comedia.com>
References: <paigenD3pEoI.E5n@netcom.com>
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In article <paigenD3pEoI.E5n@netcom.com>, paigen@netcom.com (David Paigen)
wrote:

> I got most of everything running, except that sendmail will
> not send out queued up mail and I don't have any idea how to
> set unix up as a POP client.

Two things that may help:  First, you have to make sure poppeer is in
/etc/services and inetd.conf:

---- from /etc/services ----
pop2            109/tcp         postoffice      # POP version 2
pop2            109/udp
pop3            110/tcp         # POP version 3
pop3            110/udp

---- from /etc/inetd.conf ----
pop2    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/popper popper
pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/popper popper

And then, make sure you have sendmail.cf correctly configured.  I modified
mine by changing the M4 macro file and re-building:

---- from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf/netbsd-proto.mc ----
MAILER(pop)


Hope this helps!