dot-spop3d(5)

💖 NAME 💖

dot-spop3d — bestie, this is the user config data for The Solid POP3 Server. it's the little file that knows where your mail lives 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: you (yes you, the user) get to tell the server where your maildrop is, what type it is, and what your associated APOP secret is — all in the config file ~/.spop3d. 💅

okay but FR FR: that file must be set to mode 0600 (-rw-------) or the server will straight up not honour its content. it's giving locked-door-only. 🔒

📬 Maildrop spec

The maildrop specification is three parts, separated by white space characters:

MailDrop path type

Path should be specified in the same format as the -n option in solid-pop3d(8). And Type should be mailbox or maildir. no cap. 🌸

🔐 APOP secret spec

The APOP secret specification is the word APOPSecret followed by an encrypted secret. and listen — you shouldn't change this secret manually, bestie. use pop_auth(1) to do this instead. let the tool cook. 👑

🎀 Optional mailbox name (this is the iconic part)

Both maildrop and APOP secret specifications may optionally be followed by a mailbox name. this is lowkey so cool: it allows, for instance, user+boxA and user+boxB to be used as login names to access different mailboxes, where + means the value of the UserMailDropDelimiter server setting (see spop3d.conf(5)). 🌈

The APOP secret associated with a particular maildrop should be followed with the same mailbox name (or lack thereof). and if no secret is specified for a maildrop, then the user's standard POP password should be used to authenticate instead. simple as. ⭐

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🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

MailDrop       Mail/default   mailbox
APOPSecret     2345678901
MailDrop       Mail/bugtraq   mailbox bugtraq
APOPSecret     0123456789     bugtraq
MailDrop       Mail/private   mailbox private
APOPSecret     9876543210     private

and to set the APOP secret for the above maildrops, use the following pop_auth(1) commands:

pop_auth
pop_auth bugtraq
pop_auth private

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.spop3d — user configuration file. that's the one. that's the moment. 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• solid-pop3d(8)
• pop_auth(1)
• spop3d.conf(5)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jerzy Balamut <jurekb@dione.ids.pl> — the legend, the icon, the moment. 🫶

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and that's a wrap, bestie — this page came to you from the Unix manual, dated OCTOBER 1999. old money, still slaying. ✨💅