On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:15 -0700, Jeff Lacki wrote:
Hi, Im new to qpopper. Im running 4.0.8 on a fedora 3 box. After
figuring most things out I think I have it working, to the extent that
when I email from my off-site ISP to my fedora box, the incoming email
seems to hit port 25, not 110 (as I have it configured to do via xinetd
etc).
I thought 110 was the 'standard' pop port? Can someone explain this or
point me to some docs?
When you send mail to the machine on which your POP3 server is running it
is the SMTP server software on port 25 that receives it, not the POP3
server on port 110. The POP3 server on port 110 is only responsible for
taking mail from the mail spool and uploading it to a POP3 client on your
PC (or whatever). It doesn't receive mail from POP3 clients or from other
mail servers, nor does it deliver mail to other mail servers. That is the
responsibility of the SMTP server on port 25.
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