---
name: "fakepop"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "fakepop"
version: "11"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/in.fakepop"
---

# fakepop(8)

a fake pop3 daemon

Part of [in.fakepop(8)](/in.fakepop/8.md).

## NAME

fakepop - a fake pop3 daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**/usr/sbin/in.fakepop**

## DESCRIPTION

fakepop is a fake pop3 daemon. It returns always the same messages to all users, it does not care about usernames and passwords. All user/pass combinations are accepted.\
 The main purpose of fakepop is to advice users that your server only accepts pop3-ssl and they have wrongly configured pop3 without ssl. You can customize messages in /etc/fakepop/ directory to teach your users how they should configure their mail clients to use pop3-ssl instead of pop3.\
 You can also use it to: advice users that the server is under maintenance; teach the users how to configure the mail client to use another new server; or any other usage you can imagine :-)

## OPTIONS

This program discards any command line option.

## CONFIGURATION

You can put all the messages you want to deliver to the users that connect to fakepop at /etc/fakepop/ for more information see /usr/share/doc/fakepop/examples/

## AUTHOR

fakepop was written by Pedro Zorzenon Neto \<pzn@debian.org\>.