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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ix.netcom.com!netnews.com!netaxs.com!socko.cdnow.com!heller From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems installing qpop2.2.tar.Z Date: 17 Apr 1997 13:04:37 GMT Organization: CDnow - The World's Largest Online Music Store http://cdnow.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5j5755$lf@netaxs.com> References: <3353FB8A.6C56@dragon.illusions.com> <87zpuzrfvx.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> <5j4dmk$sjc$6@easystreet03> Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com NNTP-Posting-Host: socko.cdnow.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39212 tedm@portsoft.com wrote: : In <87zpuzrfvx.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>, stephen farrell <sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> writes: : >"Karl E. Taylor" <ktaylor@dragon.illusions.com> writes: : > : >there is probably some sort of pop daemon in the ports colletion, : >which would be your easiest bet. : > : >having said that, i can't imagine why qpopper wouldn't compile easily; : >i've built it for several systems without a hangup. in the future : >(and in this case!) please list error messages to help people diagnose : >the problem you're having. : > : A few weeks ago I compiled qpop 2.2 on a 2.2.1 system, unfortunately there is : some broken code somewhere in 2.2. When it runs, it doesen't change to the : userid of the person getting the mail, so it cannot read the mailfiles. The : earlier version of qpop off of qualcomm's archive site still works, though, so : I'd use that if you really want to use qpop. Broken code in qpop or FreeBSD? (heller@socko:[8:59am]-101-) ~> uname -a FreeBSD socko.cdnow.com 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 28 12:17:01 EST 1997 heller@socko.cdnow.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CDN5NVXVB i386 (heller@socko:[8:59am]-102-) ~> telnet socko 110 Trying 198.138.235.75... Connected to socko.cdnow.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK QPOP (version 2.2) at socko.cdnow.com starting. <16238.861282002@socko.cdnow.com> quit +OK Pop server at socko.cdnow.com signing off. Connection closed by foreign host. As I recall, I used the ports version and set it up for apop and kerberos. Karl