pop3p

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
CLIENTS
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

NAME

pop3p - POP3 proxy gateway service

SYNOPSIS

pop3p [-d] [-l[[@]logfile]] [-pport] [-iinternal_ip] [-eexternal_ip] [-hdefault_ip[:port]]

DESCRIPTION

pop3p is POP3 gateway service to allow internal users to access external POP3 servers.

OPTIONS

-I

Inetd mode. Standalone service only.

-d

Daemonize. Detach service from console and run in the background.

-t

Be silenT. Do not log start/stop/accept error records.

-u

Never look for username authentication.

-e

External address. IP address of the interface the proxy should initiate connections from. By default, the system will decide which address to use in accordance with the routing table.

-niPATH

(Linux only) Switch to the network namespace identified by PATH before opening the listening socket. The current namespace is saved and restored immediately after binding, so outgoing connections run in the original namespace unless -ne is also given.

-nePATH

(Linux only) Switch to the network namespace identified by PATH after the listening socket has been bound (and after restoring from -ni if applicable). Both options accept any namespace file path (e.g. /var/run/netns/myns or /proc/PID/ns/net) and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

-i

Internal address. IP address the proxy accepts connections to. By default, connections to any interface are accepted. It´s usually unsafe. Unix domain sockets can be specified with -iunix:/path/to/socket syntax (e.g., -iunix:/var/run/pop3p.sock). On Linux, abstract sockets use -iunix:@socketname syntax.

-p

Port. Port proxy listens for incoming connections. Default is 110.

-h

Default destination. It’s used if the target address is not specified by the user.

-l

Log. By default logging is to stdout. If logfile is specified logging is to file. Under Unix, if ´@´ precedes logfile, syslog is used for logging.

-S

Increase or decrease stack size. You may want to try something like -S8192 if you experience 3proxy crashes.

CLIENTS

You can use any MUA (Mail User Agent) with POP3 support. Set the client to use internal_ip and port as a POP3 server. The address of the real POP3 server must be configured as a part of the POP3 username. The format for the username is username@server, where server is the address of the POP3 server and username is the user´s login on this POP3 server. The login itself may contain an ´@´ sign. Only cleartext authentication is supported, because challenge-response authentication (APOP, CRAM-MD5, etc.) requires a challenge from the server before we know which server to connect to.

BUGS

Report all bugs to 3proxy@3proxy.org

SEE ALSO

3proxy(8), ftppr(8), proxy(8), socks(8), tcppm(8), udppm(8), syslogd(8),
https://3proxy.org/

AUTHORS

3proxy is designed by Vladimir 3APA3A Dubrovin (3proxy@3proxy.org)