solid-pop3d(8)

📦 version 0.15, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 solid-pop3d — The Solid POP3 Server 💖

okay bestie, so this is solid-pop3d, aka The Solid POP3 Server, and she's a whole icon. this is her manual page, from the System Administrator's Manual collection, and we're gonna walk through every single bit of her. no skimming, no skipping, we keep all the lore. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

solid-pop3d [-rd] [-n maildropfile] [-t maildroptype] [-a time] [-f configfile]

yeah that's the whole summoning circle. short, cute, powerful. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so The Solid POP3 Server is an implementation of the Post Office Protocol server, and the entire vibe is flexibility on mind. she's built to bend, not break. ✨

she's got support for:

  • mailbox
  • maildir
  • APOP
  • bulletins
  • and a few other things 👀

she can run as an inetd server or as a standalone server, whichever your little heart desires. see the README for more details, because apparently the README is where the real tea lives. 🍓

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -n maildropfile — tells her which maildrop file (or directory) to use. and babes, the following strings that start with a % character are recognized and get replaced:
    • %s — swap it for the user name
    • %dN — swap it for the N-th character of the user name
    • %% — swap it for a single % character
    • %m — swap it for the mapped user name (go read the VIRTUALS file, bestie)
    • %o — swap it for the "original" user name. this is the user name with any UserMapPrefix removed. unless DoMapping is enabled and a UserMapPrefix is supplied, this will be a blank string. (so basically it's giving ✨nothing✨ in that case, iconic of her)
    • if the path you specified isn't absolute, she treats it as relative to the user's home directory. for example: /var/mail/%d1/%d2/%s expands to /var/mail/j/u/jurekb, and Mail/bugtraq expands to /home/jurekb/Mail/bugtraq for the "jurekb" user on my system. the default is /var/mail/%s, or Maildir when mailbox support is not compiled in. 🦋
  • -t maildroptype — pick a maildrop type. mailbox and maildir are supported. default is mailbox, or maildir when mailbox support is not compiled in. periodt.
  • -a time — set an autologout time. these suffixes are recognized:
    • s — time is in seconds
    • m — time is in minutes
    • h — time is in hours
    • d — time is in days
    • w — time is in weeks

if there's no suffix, seconds get used. the default value is 2 minutes. ⭐

  • -f configfile — pick a configuration file. default is /etc/spop3d.conf.
  • -d — sets the server into debugging mode. 🐛✨
  • -r — allows root login. this feature is disabled by default and shouldn't be used.
🚨 bestie NO. seriously. this one's disabled by default for a reason and the manpage literally says don't. root login is giving major red flag energy. leave it alone. 💀

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.spop3d — user configuration file.
  • ~/.spop3d-bull — this file is used by the bulletin code to figure out the last bulletin received by a user.
  • /var/lib/solid-pop3d/bulletins — the bulletins directory.
  • /etc/spop3d.conf — the global configuration file.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(yes there's a trailing comma in the original and yes we're keeping it, we don't erase her quirks 🫶)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jerzy Balamut <jurekb@dione.ids.pl> — the mastermind, the main character, the one who built her. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🧚

this beauty comes to you from the Unix manual, dated OCTOBER 1999, and she lives at solid-pop3d(8). yes she's a lil vintage and that's exactly why she's timeless. slay forever, queen. 💖✨🌈

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