popmail in busybox

Murali K. Vemuri murali at uczen.co.kr
Wed Mar 10 07:29:48 UTC 2010


Hi,
If I issue the POP commands I am able to see the messages in my mail
account. 

I checked this.

But I am missing some "connection helper" if I understood correctly.
or is there something else I am missing?

thanks for the continued help
Regards
Murali


On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:20 +0300, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> >
> > I checked the netcat behaviour for my pop server, this is what I get:
> >
> > # nc pop.gobizmail.com 110
> > +OK POP3 TIMS(5.40.2008012515) server ready.
> > <14451.1268202887 at sme.or.kr>
> >
> 
> OK. Try to issue USER <your-username>. What is the answer?
> 
> > is this correct .. sorry, I don't have the strace yet .
> >
> > By the way, is there any document that explains what is
> > "connection helper" expected with the "popmaildir" .
> >
> A helper is responsible for establishing connection to the server.
> Think of, e.g., @gmail.com, which requires secure (TLS) connection,
> and SSL libraries are out of busybox scope. Think of various POP3
> flavors which require or not some authentication. To hide these
> peculiarities, we introduce connection helpers (the same
> considerations apply to sendmail). Once the helper established the
> connection, popmaildir (sendmail) just issues commands to stdout, and
> reads responses from stdin, as if no network involved.
> 
> -- Vladimir
> 
> 
> 



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