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15 .Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2014 $ |
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16 .Dt POP3D 8 |
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17 .Os |
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18 .Sh NAME |
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19 .Nm pop3d |
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20 .Nd Post Office Protocol (POP3) daemon. |
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21 .Sh SYNOPSIS |
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22 .Nm |
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23 .Op Fl d |
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24 .Op Fl p Ar path |
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25 .Op Fl t Ar type |
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26 .Sh DESCRIPTION |
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27 .Nm |
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28 daemon implements Post Office Protocol (Version 3) as specified in |
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29 RFC 1939 as well as POP3S and STARTTLS extensions. |
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30 .Pp |
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31 .Nm |
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32 binds to 110(POP3), 995(POP3S) ports and operates on local mailboxes on |
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33 behalf of its remote users. |
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34 .Pp |
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35 The options are as follows: |
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36 .Bl -tag -width Ds |
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37 .It Fl d |
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38 Do not daemonize. If this option is specified, |
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39 .Nm |
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40 will run in foreground and log to |
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41 .Em stderr . |
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42 .It Fl p |
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43 Path to the maildrop. Defaults to /var/mail/%u in case of mbox and |
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44 ~/Maildir in case of maildir. |
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45 .Nm |
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46 expands '~' to user's home dir |
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47 and '%u' to user's name if specified in the path. |
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48 .It Fl t |
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49 Specify maildrop type. Options are mbox and maildir. Defaults to mbox. |
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50 .El |
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51 .Sh FILES |
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52 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/ssl/private/server.key" -compact |
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53 .It Pa ~/maildir |
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54 .It Pa /var/mail/%u |
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55 User maildrops |
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56 .Pp |
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57 .It /etc/ssl/server.crt |
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58 .It /etc/ssl/private/server.key |
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59 Location of SSL certificate and key |
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60 .Sh SEE ALSO |
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61 .Xr smtpd 8 , |
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62 .Xr ssl 8 |
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63 .Sh STANDARDS |
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64 .Rs |
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65 .%A J. Myers |
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66 .%A M. Rose |
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67 .%D May 1996 |
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68 .%R RFC 1939 |
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69 .%T Post Office Protocol \(en Version 3 |
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70 .Re |
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71 .Pp |
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72 .Rs |
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73 .%A C. Newman |
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74 .%D June 1999 |
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75 .%R RFC 2595 |
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76 .%T Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP |
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77 .Re |
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78 .Pp |
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79 .Rs |
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80 .%A A. Melnikov |
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81 .%A C. Newman |
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82 .%A M. Yevstifeyev |
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83 .%D August 2011 |
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84 .%R draft-melnikov-pop3-over-tls-02 |
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85 .Sh CAVEATS |
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86 POP3 authenticates using cleartext passwords on 110(POP3) port. |