Are the windows stations on your local network?
I had a similar problem to yours but only on
stations that were remote, not on my local network.
The problem was that I had a firewall, which was
refusing all connections to port 110, the port
that pop3 uses.
At Ronnie Walker's suggestion I did a search
for files containing ipfwadm (one of the two
major firewall tools) and I found the file
that controlled which ports were being listened
to and port 110 wasn't listed. Copying the line
from the other ports I was then able to free
up port 110.
As an additional note, I needed to beef up
my security in general, using shadow passwords,
and need to find an ftp server that can use
them, so don't think that if you free up that
port that your firewall work will be done (mine
isn't) but it might enable you to run pop3 from
outlook.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Burdis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:42 PM
> To: Qmail Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Problem running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver
>
>
> On Mon 1999Ar-07-12 (19:05), Alvaro Escobar wrote:
> >
> > I have Linux 2.0.36. I installed qmail. It is working fine.
> >
> > I am running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver and qmail-pop3d under inetd.
> > I can see my e-mails from any Windows station with Outlook Express.
> >
> > I would like to have qmail-pop3d running under tcpserver too.
> >
> > I put the following line in my rc.local:
> >
> >
> >
> > tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ns1.integral.com.co
> > \
> >
> > /bin/checkpasswd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d maildir 2>&1 | \
> >
> > /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
>
> Your tcpserver line appears to be fine. Perhaps maildir should be Maildir
> though.
>
> > However when I intent to see my e-mail from any Windows station with
> > Outlook Express, I get the following message: ŽERR authorization
> > failedŽ.
>
> I suspect checkpassword is your problem. Mark Delany's
> checkpassword test at
> the top of the "Alternative Checkpassword Implementations" on
> www.qmail.org
> should help. (Just a note though that on my system id is in /usr/bin).
>
> - Keith
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