Hi Clemens,
thank you for your suggestions.
You're right. Surely it will be better to add "pop-3" to the /etcservices
insteed of changing pop3 to pop-3.
Anyway, I think the provided informations will help Toni to solve his problem.
greetings
christian
clemensF schrieb:
> > Christian Wiese:
>
> > please tell us what kind of qmail package and what Linux distribution do
> > you use.
> > On some systems the POP3 service in /etc/services is called pop3, but
> > qmail-pop3d uses pop-3.
> > So please have a look at the /etc/services and check out what is writen
> > there under port 110.
> > If there is an entry like pop3 change it to pop-3 and try to run your
> > qmail-pop3d server again.
>
> wow! you almost had me there, mr. wiese. barely had i finished reading
> your posting, when the times found me digging thru qmail, ucspi-tcp and the
> daemontools. i realized that nowhere does the source depend on internal
> name<->service-port guessing. as a matter of fact somewhere in the first
> lines of tcpserver.c/main the service name/number is scanned and handed to
> getservbyname, which eventually (might) return the tcp port to watch.
>
> but your advice is to the point, i just want to add that it might be saver
> not to *change* these lines in /etc/services, but to *add* them: programs
> might appear which insist on looking for the name `pop3'.
>
> > e.g. /etc/services
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > pop-3 110/tcp pop-3 # POP version 3
> > pop-3 110/udp pop-3
> > -------------------------------------------
>
> -------------------------------------------
> pop-3 110/tcp pop-3 # POP version 3
> pop-3 110/udp pop-3
> pop3 110/tcp pop-3 # POP version 3
> pop3 110/udp pop-3
> -------------------------------------------
>
> --
> Valerian Q. Farthingsworthe-Jones III