Solution 1:

You should connect using SSL, this goes through port 995. On the server you should enable this in your /etc/inetd.conf:

pop3s   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/ipop3d

Than restart inetd

/etc/init.d/inetd restart

Reconfigure your pop3 client so it uses SSL passwords trough port 995. And it all should
work… If you are using the server behind NAT, don’t forget to forward
the port 995!

Solution 2:

But I had a problem with all my old Macintoshes connecting to my internal ‘debian/unstable (SID)’ pop3 (ipopd) server. Here’s how I enabled the plain text passwords again, and how I compiled new debian (.deb) packages again. (A real step-by-step howto I wrote for a friend of mine, so just copy paste the bold lines into your root shell. Even my mum can do this ;) )

First I created a directory:

mkdir /usr/src/ipopd

Go to the new created dir:

cd /usr/src/ipopd

And downloaded the debian source package:

apt-get source ipopd

Get dependencies:

apt-get build-dep ipopd

Now you should have the following:

• uw-imap-2002edebian1
• uw-imap_2002edebian1-3.diff.gz
• uw-imap_2002edebian1-3.dsc
• uw-imap_2002edebian1.orig.tar.gz

Go to the directory ‘uw-imap-2002edebian1′

cd /usr/src/ipopd/uw-imap-2002edebian1

Edit the make file:

vi Makefile

Search for the config line (now some crash course vi 4 U :-)

/SSLTYPE=nopwd

(’/’ means search in vi and vim and we’re going to look for the needle ‘SSLTYPE=nopwd’, to search again for the same needle, use a backslash)

Edit the line:

i

(this will enable the editor, now you can type into the document, change the line ‘SSLTYPE=nopwd’ to ‘SSLTYPE=none’ when you don’t want to use SSL, set the line to ‘SSLTYPE=unix’ when you want to be able to use both.)

SSLTYPE=none

Now press the escape button on your keyboard ;) This will disable the editor again so we can give commands to save and quit…

:wq

(’:’ will give a command, ‘w’ = write, ‘q’ = quit)

Now we should have a prompt again… Let’s bake a package. ;) Now you’ll have to change the changelog, or else when we’ve build and installed this package, and we do an apt-get upgrade, our fresh baked package will be overwritten by the original one again. Now concentrate! ;) You’ll need to edit the changelog in a special
format.

Open the file in vi and ADD the following lines AT THE TOP of the changelog file:

vi debian/changelog

uw-imap (7:2002edebian1-3b1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Disabled secure passw...

 -- Daantje   Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:34:34 +0200

Please mind the TWO spaces, between the email address and date!
I’ve updated the original version ‘7:2002edebian1-3′ to ‘7:2002edebian1-3b1′ so the next upgrade will be done by apt-get when there’s a new release.

Now compile it with the debian script:

debian/rules build

(Wait while your machine compiles…)

debian/rules binary

(Wait while your machine creates the packages…)

The packages should be one directory above, we want to install them all! ;)

dpkg -i ../*.deb

(Wait wile it’s installing the packages)

We are done! Check your mail! Drink beer!

Here are the 10 steps to get drunk:

1. Open a console and become root with the su command.

   su

2. Than download the source in /usr/src:

   cd /usr/src/
   wget ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/linux-kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2
   

3. Unpack the bziped file:

   tar -jxvf linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2

4. Don’t forget to symlink /usr/src/linux to the linux-2.4.29 dir, or else the compiler will fale!!

   ln -s linux-2.4.29 linux

5. Now you’ll need some packages so you’ll be able to configure the kerel with a GUI and beable to make the .deb packages.

   apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package

6. Now configure the kernel for your machine…

   cd /usr/src/linux
   make menuconfig
     

7. Now comes the compiling of the packages.

   make-kpkg clean
   make-kpkg --revision=custom.myfisrttry.1.0 kernel_image
      

This can take a while, make some coffee…

8. When you have modules enabled and downloaded to /usr/src/modules you also should compile the modules.

   make-kpkg --revision=custom.myfisrttry.1.0 modules_image

9. Now you should have your .deb kernel packages in /usr/src. If
   there was an error, you should do the last step again! We have them?
   Let’s install them…

   dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.29_custom.myfirsttry.1.0_i386.deb

   And if you have some module deps you should install them too!

10. Reboot the machine and pray…

    reboot

11. Drink beer!

Here’s how I got an PPP connection trough my serial port. Before I can have internet on my iPAQ (with an familiar distro installed on it…) I had to compile a new kernel on my laptop with ‘PPP filtering’ enabled. You can find it under ‘Network Devices’ in ‘make menuconfig’. For IP portforwarding you’ll have to have some more stuff in your kernel you can find here. How to build a custom Debian kernel package is here. Also installed ‘ppp’ on my laptop with:

apt-get install ppp

Before we go on, I’ve got an internal network with a NetGear router, it’s IP number is 192.168.1.1 and it’s the internal gateway and DNS server of my laptop. When you don’t have the same setup, change the 192.168.1.1 into the IP number from the gateway (or DNS) from your access-provider.

Then I made a file ‘/etc/ppp/peers/ipaq‘ on my laptop, with this content:

-detach
noauth
nocrtscts
lock
local
ms-dns 192.168.1.1
user ppp
connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -t3 ogin--ogin: ppp'
/dev/ttyS0
115200
192.168.0.1:192.168.0.2

Then edit the ‘/etc/modules.conf‘ on the iPAQ and add these lines to it:

alias /dev/ppp          ppp_generic
alias char-major-108    ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3       ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14      ppp_synctty

Then add to ‘/etc/modules‘

ppp_async

Now reboot your iPAQ with the command ‘reboot’. Then kill your minicom, if it’s on… and then open the ppp connection to the iPAQ from your PC, on Debian you do that with

pon ipaq

When it works you’ll see this

Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
local  IP address 192.168.0.1
remote IP address 192.168.0.2

Now you can ssh to the iPAQ…

ssh root@192.168.0.2

With me the login takes a second or 10… So be patient, it’s a serial connection ;)

Now you want internet on your iPAQ trough your serial PPP connection. So when you’ve compiled IP portforwarding (see my howto) in your kernel, you do the following. Make a file ‘ipmasq.sh’ with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
#Assuming external internet card is eth0, and IP is 192.168.1.2
# modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE;
#Uncomment line above when you didn't compile it into the kernel
iptables -F; iptables -t nat -F; iptables -t mangle -F;
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to 192.168.1.2;
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward;

Make the file executeable by doing:

chmod +x ipmasq.sh

Now start it as root

./ipmasq.sh

Okay, now you should be able to ping your gateway, in my case 192.168.1.1. When you’ve got a ping the ipmasq works. Now try to ping www.google.com, that should work now to!
Now you can upgrade your distro with

/root/postinst
ipkg update
ipkg upgrade
ipkg install less
ipkg list | less
ipkg install madplay

Have fun ;)

I have again a new mouse… An Optical Microsoft mouse with 2 buttons and a scrollwheel that can be used as a thirth button too. This makes 5 buttons in total… This is what I use in my XFree86-4 config file. I use the mouse on a USB port…

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Mouse1"
  Driver      "mouse"
  Option      "CorePointer"
  Option      "Protocol"  "IMPS/2"
  Option      "ZAxismapping" "4  5"
  Option      "Buttons"      "5"
  Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
EndSection

Don’t forget to add the lineInputDevice “Mouse1″to the section Section “ServerLayout”

I have a new (small) server online. Debian on it ;) Going to run a quake server on it for my new project Quakezone.nl ;) AI

I have a new mouse… An Optical Microsoft Intellimouse with 5 buttons and a scrollwheel. This makes 7 buttons in total… This is what I use in my XFree86-4 config file

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Mouse0"
  Driver      "mouse"
  Option      "CorePointer"
  Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
  Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
  Option      "Buttons" "7"
  Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
  Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Don’t forget to add the lineInputDevice “Mouse0″to the section Section “ServerLayout”

Only to use Quanta 3 I downgraded my laptop from Sarge to Woody, but not without manny shit! But I’m online again. To use KDE3.x on Woody, I used this in my sources.list ‘deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main’ And then apt-get update, and apt-get install kdebase quanta… And there we have quanta 3 ;-) AIAIAI

After trying all drivers for the Prism2 chipset, Debian updated there Orinoco/Hermes driver, and it works! But it only works for me when I run it as a dynamic kernel module ([M]), not when I compile it into the kernel ([*])!!! I will post what stuff you’ll have to select in menuconfig later. If you wanna know now, drop me an email.