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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!news.cccd.edu!usenet 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 Organization: Golden West College Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4dhl8d$pep@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <mitch4DL9231.D64@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12231 comp.mail.eudora.mac:2188 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