Dan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I've got some problems getting pop3 (or imap, for that matter) to respond
> through inetd. I'm running Mandrake 7.2. The inetd.conf file has an entry
> that looks like:
>
> pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
>
> The services file has an entry that looks like:
>
> pop3 110/tcp pop-3
>
> I've been running inetd in debug mode to see its status. It is responding
> properly to a telnet on port 110--that is, it claims it's forwarding the
> request on to pop3.
>
> I've double checked to ensure that ipop3d is indeed in /usr/sbin. But
> nothing ever responds. After about 5 seconds the request times out.
>
> Any ideas what's going on? Could it have anything to do with a failing tcpd?
> Any help would be appreciated.
Does your /etc/hosts.deny say
ALL: ALL
If so you might want to add to /etc/hosts.allow
ipop3d: ALL
just a guess
HTH
Lawrence
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