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From: mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael S. Peer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.eudora.mac
Subject: Re: Setting up Eudora on Mac's with FREEBSD as a server.
Date: 17 Jan 1996 02:00:45 GMT
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In article <mitch4DL9231.D64@netcom.com>, mitch4@netcom.com says...
>
>I am trying to set up a network of Macintoshes running Eudora and calling
>on a FREEBSD machine as a server.  
>
>What do I need to do?  From scratch.  I looked for a FAQ and couldn't find 
one.

I did the following steps for FreeBSD 2.0.5:
1.	get a copy of qpopper from the packages directory, The name 		
is qpop-2.1.4.3.tgz.
2.	do a "pkg_add qpop-2.1.4.3.tgz" as root, this will install the 
package
4.	make sure that the popper program is in the /usr/local/libexec 
directory with permissions of -r-xr-xr-x and owned by root and group of bin.  
At least this is on my system.
3.	Edit your /etc/inetd.conf file.  At the bottom of this file is 
sample entry like this:

pop3	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/local/libexec/popper  popper

if not add it.
4.	Still as root execute command "kill -HUP 1" to reset init process.

Now the clients:
1.	Add a user on the host, with the "adduser" command.
2.	I also use "vipw" command and change the last parameter to 
/nonexistent for the shell, that way the user can't login, a bit of extra 
security.
3.	Install Eudora for Mac on mail user machine.  Configure pop account 
as <username>@<yourhostname>

By the way change password on Mac doesn't seem to work.  I also havn't 
bothered to figure out how to get rid of the pesky console messages that 
appear in the middle of my work, I'm just to busy to figure it out yet.

Hope this helps.

I can be reached by e-mail at mpeer@cccd.edu