I was asked by a friend of mine to help his get POP3 working on his server. No problems, I think, takes 5 mins. I was wrong.<\/p>\n
I knew it was going to take some thought when I noticed it was running SuSE. I’ve never so much as played with that distro before so it was going to be trial and error.<\/p>\n
I finally sorted out the fact that a decent enough imap\/pop3 server was already installed, so I changed the xinet configs and tried to connect.<\/p>\n
Connection was successful, but entering a user gave a dreaded error that meant is was not<\/strong> going to allow plaintext connections. Some googling later and we deduced this has been deliberately block hard by SuSE so had to go down the SSL route.<\/p>\n The biggest problem was finding out where the ssl certificates go, which I found by checking the logs. Once there imap worked but not pop3. A quick look at the logs and a resulting copy of the imap.pem to pop3d.pem and finally it was working! An hour and a half for that, most of it searching for clues!<\/p>\n All I can say here is it’s a good job I’m now using Linux as my primary system and have previously worked with ssl or I’d still be there now \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was asked by a friend of mine to help his get POP3 working on his server. No problems, I think, takes 5 mins. I was wrong. I knew it was going to take some thought when I noticed it … Continue reading