---
name: "freepopsd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "freepops"
version: "0.2.9-7"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/freepopsd"
---

# freepopsd(1)

FreePOPs daemon

## NAME

freepopsd - FreePOPs daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**freepopsd** \[*options*\]\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **freepopsd** daemon.

**freepopsd** is a program that converts your local requests to its pop3 daemon to remote http requests to supported web mails.

## OPTIONS

- **-p** port, **--port** port

  Starts freepopsd on that port. Default is 2000.

- **-t** max, **--threads** max

  Allows max simultneous connections. Default is 5.

- **-b** addr, **--bind** addr

  Binds over addr instead INADDR\_ANY (0.0.0.0). addr must be a character string  containing an IPv4 network address in the dotted-quad format,  "ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd" or a host name.

- **-l** *logfacility,* **--logmode** *logfacility*

  *Can be used to specify the logging facility. logfacility* can be  *stdout* for stdout (the default), *syslog* to use the logging daemon or  a valid filename to log to this file.

- **-d**, **--daemonize**

  **Moves the process to background releasing the tty**

- **-n**, **--no-pid-file**

  **Don't create the pid file containing the process id in /var/run/.**

- **-P** proxyaddress:proxyport, **--proxy** proxyaddress:proxyport

  You can specify the http proxy name and port separated by :.  If no port is specifyed 8080 is used by default.  You may also export some environment variables instead of using the **-P** switch, in priority order: HTTP\_PROXY, http\_proxy, PROXY and proxy. If the proxy needs authentication you have to use the **-A** switch. If you specify **-P -**, you will force direct connections to the web, without using any proxy server, despite enviromental variable settings.

- **-A** username:password, **--auth** username:password

  This switches on the basic authentication method. Must be used with the  **-P** switch or one of its alternative forms.

- **-u** name, **--useragent** name

  Use this useragent in http connections. The default is "Firefox/0.8". A valid example is mozilla's "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031024 Debian/1.5-2".

- **-s** user.group, **--suid** user.group

  This option is used to make freepopsd drop root privileges after binding. If you run it as a normal user there is no need to use this option.

- **-k**, **--kill**

  **Kills a running freepopsd.**

- **-x** pluginfile, **--toxml** file

  Prints on standard output the XML description of the plugin or module.

- **-e** scriptfile \[args...\], **--execute** scriptfile \[args...\]

  This is a full bloated LUA interpreter, the executed script has access to all freepops libraries.  The interpreter calls the main function that must get a table of strings and return an integer. The arguments passed to freepopsd after the script file name are put inside the table argument.  The return value is returned from the interpreter.

- **--fpat** *authtype*, **--force-proxy-auth-type** *authtype*

  *Force the use of a specific proxy auth method. Accepted types are* *basic*, *digest*, *ntlm* and *gss*.

- **-c**, **--conffile** file

  Users the specified configuration file instead of looking in default paths like  /etc/freepops/config.lua, ./config.lua and /usr/share/freepops/lua/config.lua

- **--statistics-all**

  **Enable all statistics. Results can be viewed with the monitor plugin, either** **with an account like foo@monitor?command=stats or with freepopsd -e monitor host port**  **password command.**

- **--statistics-session-created**

  **Enables statistics regarding threads created to run a plugin. See the documentation**  **of --statistics-all for an explanation of how to read that statistics.**

- **--statistics-session-ok**

  **Enables statistics regarding sessions ended successfully. See the documentation**  **of --statistics-all for an explanation of how to read that statistics.**

- **--statistics-session-err**

  **Enables statistics regarding sessions ended with an error. See the documentation**  **of --statistics-all for an explanation of how to read that statistics.**

- **--statistics-connection-established**

  **Enables statistics regarding connections accepted. See the documentation**  **of --statistics-all for an explanation of how to read that statistics.**

- **--statistics-cookies**

  **Enables statistics regarding persistently stored data (usually cookies).**  **See the documentation**  **of --statistics-all for an explanation of how to read that statistics.**

- **--statistics-pwd-file** file

  Data collected by the statistics mechanism can be read using the monitor plugin. If a password file is not specified, no password is set and everybody connection to the freepops daemon can read such data. Write your password in a text file  with no additional end-of-line to restrict access to that data. The password file is read  before dropping privileges (on unix).

- **-h**, **--help**

  **Prints the usage message.**

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  **Prints debug statements. Can be repeated to give more verbosity (see -vv).**

- **-vv**, **-v -v**, **-w**, **--veryverbose**

  **Prints even more debug statements, detailing most operations performed.** **This is the maximum verbosity level available. Combining more parameters of this kind won't give you more.**

- **-V**, **--version**

  **Prints the program version.**\

## FILES

- */usr/share/freepops/lua/\**

  **Webmails access implementation**

- */etc/freepops/config.lua*

  **Configuration file, interesting only for paths, addresses to modules binding,** **and accept/reject policy on mail addresses**

## AUTHOR

**This manual page was written by Enrico Tassi \<gareuselesinge@users.sourceforge.net\>,** **for the Debian project (but may be used by others).**
