At 11:03 PM 3/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > >> * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch >> * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailPostfixTrials > >These pages didn't really help my specific problem. > >> The final piece of the puzzle for me (I hope) was how to set up a pop >> (and imap) server under xinetd (sp?). > >Does POP run independently of Postfix? I didn't think so. If so, how >-do- you get it running? > Yes, pop does run independently of postfix. POP3d is a binary included in the imap-* packages, which is controlled by the xinetd superdaemon.
The steps to getting a working pop3 server are: 1. Make sure that xinetd is installed. If it isn't, install it. 2. Make sure that all imap-* packages are installed. If they aren't, install them. 3. Make sure that the /etc/xinetd.d/pop3 file is not set as "disabled" -- if it is, enable it. 4. Finally, restart xinetd. You should now have a working pop3 server. If it still doesn't work, check the following: 1. Verify that xinetd is running. 2. Verify that pop3 is running (ps / netstat are your friends). 3. Try connecting from the local machine -- if it doesn't work, then you have some type of configuration issue, quite possibly with hosts.deny 4. If you get a successful connect from the local machine, check remote connectivity (ie, from another machine). If it doesn't work, there is either an issue with /etc/hosts.deny or one of the rules in your firewall (if you have one in place). 5. Make sure that the username / password is a valid account on the mail server. If you are still having problems, send the relevant error messages from your logs to the list...it is much easier to give more specific ideas if we know exactly what the problem is.
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