At 10:43 AM 10/25/99 -0200, F.V.V. wrote [in part]:
>Well, my POP3 server seems to be alive, it really was *ed in /etc/inetd.conf
>file.
What does "*ed" mean?
>9- Telneting to the mail server 'telnet mail.aldeia.com.br 110' the server
>respods,
> giving username frank and frankva it responds OK and when given pass ...
>it responds
> 0 messages.
>
>
>So - I have sendmail responding, I have POP3 responding but I am being
>unable to send mail to myself. Why ???
To track down the problem,, you need to figure out if it is in mail delivery
(i.e., sendmail) or in mail downloading (i.e., pop3d). So ...
... the first thing to check is whether the mail is arriving on the server.
See if the mail inboxes for frank and frankva (a) exist and (b) have any
contents. (Mail inboxes are ordinary text files and can be examined with
text processors like vi.) The inboxes probably are /var/spool/mail/frank and
/var/spool/mail/frankva, but this is a configuration setting that may vary
(I don't think you've said what distributon or version of Linux you are using).
If they don't, then check if the messages are sitting undelivered in
sendmail's mail queue (I think "mailq" will check this for you).
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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