HOWTO: install freepops

[Shaun440]

I would like to bump this thread.

I've tried everything here and still cannot get freepops to work.

[tattrat]

me to - this is a rubbish howto!

[DesiArnez6]

same here... I am getting similar errors, sigh

After typing: sudo freepopsd -p 2000 -b 127.0.0.1

I receive the error: Unable to bind on 127.0.0.1:2000

Does this have to do wit firewall permissions, firestarter, etc?

[Dhammikae]

I am a newbee for Ubuntu but I have used Freepops for all my web mail for quite some time on Windows and here is how I got it working on Ubuntu.

Search Freepops in Synaptic package manager and select to install freepops and freepops-updater-fltk

After this do

sudo apt-get install build-essential

and that will install all the needed stuff.

Now update all lua packages to the latest using

sudo freepops-updater-fltk

And now you can start the service using

sudo freepopsd -p 110 -b 127.0.0.1 &
(I used it for port 110 - you can use 2000 as in default setting)

Now all my hotmail, yahoo, AOL and Gmail are working great. I use port 110 because I use a shared Thunderbird profile between my Windows and Ubuntu and in wondows I have been using port 110 as that seems to be the port my Virus scanner scans.

Hope this will help someone.

D.

[ucro1263]

After typing: sudo freepopsd -p 2000 -b 127.0.0.1

I receive the error: Unable to bind on 127.0.0.1:2000

Can someone help us with these???

[ucro1263]

After typing: sudo freepopsd -p 2000 -b 127.0.0.1

I receive the error: Unable to bind on 127.0.0.1:2000

Can someone help us with these???

OK, solved my above question myself!!!

Here's what i did:

sudo gedit /etc/default/freepops 

in my file it contained the next data:

#####################################
# configuration file for freepopsd.
#                                    
# man freepopsd for more info.     
DAEMON="/usr/bin/freepopsd"
DAEMON_OPTS=" -n -s nobody.nogroup"
PIDFILE="/var/run/freepops.pid"
CHROOTED_DAEMON_OPTS=" -n -s nobody.nogroup" 

i changed tha last line to look like this:

#####################################
# configuration file for freepopsd.
#                                    
# man freepopsd for more info.     
DAEMON="/usr/bin/freepopsd"
DAEMON_OPTS=" -n -s nobody.nogroup"
PIDFILE="/var/run/freepops.pid"
[COLOR="Red"]CHROOTED_DAEMON_OPTS=" -p 2000 -b 127.0.0.1 -n -s nobody.nogroup"[/COLOR] 

save, close, and to the next instruction in the howTo.

[yateendra]

To: Those who have gotten Freepops to work when guarddog is disabled, but not otherwise. There are two possible glitch points:

(1) The connection between your mail client and the freepops demon (freepopsd). I have set mine up using 127.0.0.1 (localhost) port 2000, and I recommend other messages here to troubleshoot that part (In my installation, no adjustments were necessary in guarddog to enable a connection to localhost port 2000).

(2) The connection between the freepops demon and the email server (in the INTERNET zone).
The general factor to consider is that, while Freepops is categorized as a means to access "http mail," it may actually use other protocols (than "http" or "https") to retrieve your mail. Here's some info. which may help.

I use freepops for yahoo mail, and did some troubleshooting using a log of blocked traffic (I used firestarter for this (?!)). My block occurred on Port 143.

As it turns out, the current Freepops "lua" (access script) uses IMAP protocol to access yahoo mail (Freepops may also use this method for other services). In guarddog, the corresponding selection is "Internet/Protocol/Imap" (You can verify this by entering "143" in the "Port Reference" Tab). Click to make the checkmark appear, then click "Apply."

I was able to download my yahoo mail after doing this. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the current [5/17/10] "yahoo.lua" file--keeps downloading the same messages ad infinitum--and I will have to install the update from the freepops bulletin board manually (http://freepops.diludovico.it). The fix was published by a bulletin board participant and hasn't yet been added to the freepops update repository.

Now I will uninstall firestarter . If you would like to avoid the hassle, you can read the kernel log and get the "blocked packets" information directly (I was too much of a novice to identify this). Here's the corresponding log entry (/var/log/kern.log):
May 17 07:49:17 [machine-name] kernel: [10167.520079] DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.198 DST=98.136.131.29 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=42835 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4517 DPT=143 SEQ=508079533 ACK=0 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40101040201030307)

Apparently "DPT" means "destination port." "SRC" would be your local machine's network address.

Good Luck!
Cam

[wnelson]

Make sure the following in /etc/defaults/freepops is changed


DAEMON_OPTS=" -p 2000 -n -s nobody.nogroup"

This makes the localhost error go a way even with a firewall.