pop3front(8)

✨ NAME ✨

pop2front — POP3 Front End 💌 (yes bestie the manpage really does say pop2front up there, we don't make the rules, we just report them faithfully 🫶)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pop3front-auth cvm program [ args ... ]

pop3front-maildir [ default-maildir ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so the POP3 front end? It's giving two whole pieces, a duo, a main-character team-up:

• an authentication front end 🎀
• and a transfer back-end 🦋

Connections get timed out after $TIMEOUT seconds of doing absolutely nothing (that defaults to 1200 seconds, aka 20 minutes), or $SESSION_TIMEOUT seconds after the connection was established (defaults to 86400 seconds, aka 24 hours). So if you're ghosting the server, bestie, it will notice 😭

🔐 pop3front-auth

This one authenticates the username and password the client sent, using the named cvm. And if that works out? It sets up the environment and executes program. Iconic behaviour, no notes ✨

It also offers RFC 1734 complient AUTH support through cvm-sasl. Yes we said "complient", that's literally what the page says, we are not touching it 💀

📬 pop3front-maildir

This one serves messages via POP3 out of a maildir. Here's the vibe check:

• If $MAILBOX is set, its contents are used as the path to the mailbox.
• Otherwise, the default-mailbox argument must be present. No mailbox, no service, periodt.
• If $MAX_MESSAGES is set, the total number of accessable messages will be limited to that number.
• And in addition — if either of $MAX_CUR_MESSAGES or $MAX_NEW_MESSAGES are set, the total number of accessable messages in the "cur" and "new" subdirectories respectively will each be limited to that number. Two separate little caps, one for each folder, iykyk 🧚

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• smtpfront(8)
• /usr/share/doc/mailfront/html/cvm-sasl.html
• http://untroubled.org/mailfront/
• http://untroubled.org/cvm/

okay that's the whole thing, bestie, you ate that reading session 💖 This lil number lives in the System Manager's Manual section (pop3front(8), if you're keeping score) — mwah, go forth and pop some mail 🌈💅