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NAME
pop3, imap4d - Internet mail servers
SYNOPSIS
upas/pop3 [ -d debugfile ][ -a mailbox ][ -r peeraddr ][ -t tlscertfile
][ -p ]
ip/imap4d [-acpv] [-d smtpdomain] [-s servername]
DESCRIPTION
These programs support remote access to mail across the Internet. All
expect the network connection to be standard input, output, and error.
They are normally started from scripts in /rc/bin/service (see lis‐
ten(8)).
Pop3 provides access to a user's mailboxes via the POP3 protocol. The
options are:
-d create debugfile and write debugging output to it
-a causes pop3 to assume that it it already authenticated and to read
mailbox immediately
-r causes pop3 to create the file /mail/ratify/trusted/peeraddr#32 to
allow subsequent SMTP sessions from that address. See ratfs(4) for
details.
-t get the local TLS certificate from the file tlscertfile.
-p allow passwords in the clear for authenticating the connection
Imap4d provides access to a user's mailboxes via the IMAP4rev1 proto‐
col. Only files rooted in /mail/box/username/ are accessible. The
list of subscribed mailboxes is contained in /mail/box/user‐
name/imap.subscribed, and initially contains only INBOX, IMAP's name
for the user's mailbox. A shadow file, mailbox.imp, is created for
each mailbox examined.
Imap4d's options are:
a Assume the user is already authenticated. By default, the user
must authenticate using CRAM-MD5 or securenet(8) challenge/response
authentication.
c Allow plan 9 challenge response authentication.
p Allow login authentication. This option should only be enabled for
servers using an encrypted connection, such as SSL, and when en‐
abled, all non-encrypted connections should be disallowed. Imap4d
does not enforce this policy.
v Turn on verbose output to the debug file.
s The server's name. If none is provided, cs (see ndb(8)) is queried
or /env/sysname is used.
d The local mail domain. Defaults to the server /env/site in the
mail server's domain.
For both imap4d and pop3, the password used to authenticate the connec‐
tion is the APOP secret held by keyfs(4) running on the authentication
server.
FILES
/sys/log/imap4d
debugging output
/mail/box/username/mailbox
/mail/box/username/mailbox.imp
/mail/box/username/imap.subscribed
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/upas/pop3
/sys/src/cmd/ip/imap4d
SEE ALSO
aliasmail(8), faces(1), filter(1), mail(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1), ned‐
mail(1), qer(8), rewrite(6), send(8), upasfs(4)
BUGS
Usually messages flagged for deletion with DELE are not actually
deleted until the client sends a QUIT command to end the conversation.
Pop3 implements a non-standard command SYNC that deletes messages
flagged for deletion without ending the conversation.
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