6. Using the POP3 Services

Your router’s addressbook will likely contain the destination key for pop.postman.i2p. If it’s missing you can add it manually to your addressbook. The key ist:

Check if the pop3 client tunnel is running.
Now try to telnet the POP3 service


donkey ~ # telnet localhost 7660
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK ready
user jondoe
+OK Password required for jondoe
pass thepassword
+OK jondoe has 1 visible message (0 hidden) in 456 octets.
quit
+OK OK - Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

Before you start receiving mail you should consider the following:

  1. Please read about the potential risks first before using normal mail clients for this service.

  2. APOP authentication is not supported

  3. Please do not store excessive amounts of mail – retrieve your mail and empty the mailbox please

  4. Maximum allowed mailbox size is 50MB per account

  5. SSL/TLS is not supported on the server-side. We rely on the I2P framework for secure communication

    6. Now you’re able to configure an E-mail client and set the host:port of the I2P client tunnel as POP3 server. Please keep in mind that answering a mail from users of the mail.i2p mail-domain requires you to setup a tunnel to smtp.postman.i2p too.

    Pictures:

    • [1] POP3 Configuration in Mozilla Tunderbird

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