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This article introduces you how to install pop3 in the CentOS system, the content is very detailed, interested friends can refer to, hope to be helpful to you.

POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) is the third version of the Post Office Protocol, which specifies how a personal computer connects to a mail server on the Internet to send and receive mail. To install it in a CentOS system, I'll show you how to install it.

When you install the CentOS system, you find that the default installation does not enable the pop3 service. After ls for a long time, I didn't find the ipop3d program and configuration file that I am familiar with. Google, only to find that the CentOS system uses the program of dovecot as pop/imap. It is said that it has many functions and high security. All we need is a simple pop3 without so many requirements.

one. CentOS system installs dovecot

Yum install dovecot

two. Modify the configuration file

Vi / etc/dovecot.conf

Find the # protocols=imap imaps line and remove #. Modify to

Protocols = imap pop3

Find # defaultmailenv, remove # defaultmailenv = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u, and comment.

Defaultmailenv = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

three. CentOS system Startup Service

/ etc/init.d/dovecot start

Test it. Ok . Set to CentOS system service.

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