Re: [tpop3d-discuss] Re: tpop3d on Mac OS X

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:37:07PM +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 10:21 , Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> 
> >What happens if you give exactly the same sequence of
> >commands manually? What do you see?
> 
> First, I did change the listen because I *do* not want it to listen on 
> the external interface ...
> 
> listen-address: 192.168.1.91 :110 (rna.nl)
> mailbox: bsd:/var/mail/$(user)
> auth-passwd-enable: yes
> auth-passwd-mail-group: mail
> 
> Startup of tpop3d says
> 
> [dumbledore:/var/mail] root# /usr/local/sbin/tpop3d -d -v
> listening on address 192.168.1.91, port 110, domain rna.nl
> listener_new: gethostbyaddr(0.0.0.0): cannot resolve name
> listener_new: 0.0.0.0: no domain suffix can be appended for this address
> listener_new: 0.0.0.0: using fallback domain suffix `dumbledore'
> listening on address 0.0.0.0, port 110, domain dumbledore
> listener_new: bind(0.0.0.0:110): Address already in use
> 1 authentication drivers successfully loaded
> net_loop: tpop3d version 1.4.2 successfully started
> 
> Why does it try 0.0.0.0 anyway?

Because, rather suprisingly, it interprets a blank host
name as 0.0.0.0. There should be no space between the IP
address and the colon in the listen-address line; tpop3d
is interpreting it as

    192.168.1.91:110            default port
    0.0.0.0:110                 default IP address

> Then in a shell I did:
> 
> [dumbledore:local/src/tpop3d-1.4.2] gerben% telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.rna.nl.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <address@hidden>
> USER renee
> +OK Tell me your password.
> PASS [snip]
> +OK Welcome aboard! You have exactly one message.
> UIDL
> +OK ID list follows:
> 1 ee493e52990c6c10df99b747ff4113f5

-- what, and nothing else? No trailing dot?

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