Chris Blessing wrote: > > 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 > -- > Chris Blessing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://webguy.dCaff.com > ------------------------------------- > ** "I have never let schooling ** > ** interfere with my education." ** > ** - Mark Twain ** > ------------------------------------- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you verified if in.pop3d exists on your system? Some Linux distributions leave this file out either on purpose or by mistake. Otherwise, it should work. -- Omachonu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- What's soft, furry, and bites? It sure ain't no penguin...
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