I apologize profusely for reposting such a question as I know this one
has been answered many times over; it only emphasizes my commonly-sites
stupidity as I knew I would have to set it up someday... =)
To preface, I have a box with Red Hat 5.1 (2.0.36) and sendmail 8.9.3
installed and running. I am the mail server/relay station for the
system's users and their mail resides on this machine.
Anyways, what I am trying to do is setup in.pop3d (or some other POP3
daemon) to allow users to check their mail via the POP3 mail protocol
with a client such as Netscape or even the dreaded Hotmail POP access.
When I attempt to check foo's mail via POP3 in Netscape (for example), I
can get as far as contacting the server and beginning to send login
info. Right then my Linux box disconnects me (from the mail server
connection) and Netscape complains about how I should contact the sys
admin (which I ironically am).
Here's what the mail section of my /etc/inetd.conf file looks like:
# Pop and imap mail services et al
#
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
#pop-2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
#pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
#imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
I have commented out the others (pop-2, pop-3 and imap) because I was
perusing some online documentation which said to put the other line (not
commented above) in there instead. Yielded no changes in access...
In /etc/services I have these lines as well as several others:
#pop-2 109/tcp # PostOffice V.2
#pop-3 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3
#pop 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3
pop3 110/tcp # POP Version 3
Again, I added and commented out to reflect changes made in inetd.conf.
Then I restarted inetd with a kill -HUP <pid> and it still didn't work.
I am wondering what's up with my configuration and if, in fact, it is
the configuration or it is a server problem. My machine has a domain
name and all, so should I configure it to have a mail1.foo.com MX record
for mail or is that even necessary? As it is, I have a CNAME for
mail.foo.com (foo.com being my domain) which I am using to connect (it's
CNAME'd to foo.com anyways, so I could use foo.com instead). I
dunno...any ideas/suggestions/docs would be more than welcomed on this.
Thanks in advance!
PS: can I check root's mail via POP3?
Chris
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