qmail-pop3d.8 (1094B)
1 .TH qmail-pop3d 8 2 .SH NAME 3 qmail-pop3d \- distribute mail via POP 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B qmail-pop3d 6 .I maildirname 7 .SH DESCRIPTION 8 .B qmail-pop3d 9 lets a user read and delete his mail through the network. 10 11 Mail is stored in a 12 .B maildir 13 called 14 .IR maildirname , 15 normally 16 .BR Maildir , 17 in the user's home directory. 18 19 .B qmail-pop3d 20 is normally invoked 21 under 22 .BR qmail-popup , 23 which reads a username and password, 24 and 25 .BR checkpassword , 26 which checks the password and sets up environment variables. 27 28 Since root will never have a 29 .B maildir 30 (because 31 .B qmail-lspawn 32 refuses to run 33 .B qmail-local 34 as root), 35 .B qmail-pop3d 36 also refuses to run as root. 37 The event will be logged and 38 .B qmail-pop3d 39 will exit 1, looking to 40 .B qmail-popup 41 like any other failed 42 .B checkpassword 43 login. 44 45 .B qmail-pop3d 46 has a 20-minute idle timeout. 47 48 .B qmail-pop3d 49 supports UIDL, TOP, and LAST. 50 51 .B qmail-pop3d 52 appends an extra blank line to every message 53 to work around serious bugs in certain clients. 54 55 .B qmail-pop3d 56 is based on a program contributed by Russ Nelson. 57 .SH "SEE ALSO" 58 maildir(5), 59 qmail-local(8), 60 qmail-popup(8)