I got annoyed by the IMs from Yahoo saying “you have mail” — and it’s junk. Nearly-junk. So I turned off the new-mail warning on my Openfire gateway, found that Freepops was broken and not ported recently, and did a brain-dead port. There were changes needed from the supplied RPM (including a buildsystem that tries hard to fix 1/3 of the portability issues that autotools nails like a carpenter).
The RPM Specfile is still a bit trashed, and you can see I nullified the epoch (never should have been invented)
Installed, configured, and POPping mail from gmail already.
Gmail accepts only a few ports for POP (109, 110, 143, 220, 993, 995, 1110, 2221) so I changed my config from the default port 2000 to 2221:
/etc/sysconfig/freepops
#BIND_IP=127.0.0.1
BIND_PORT=2221
LP_OPTIONS="-v -d -l /var/log/freepopsd"
Assuming my own server with freepops installed is y.example.com, and my username on yahoo is chickenandporn@yahoo.com, my config in Gmail looks like:
gmail POP config with FreePOPs
- http://r.chickenandporn.com/freepops-0.2.9-1.src.rpm (2.0M 53e475d6ce051b68111e845542eca23a)
- http://r.chickenandporn.com/freepops-0.2.9-1.i386.rpm (1.5M 6f9482fde5bdae2a299a876c914655bc)