Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-12 Thread Roy Murray
"newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going > Thanks Gerald, > > It was on and working. Control Center just confuses the issue by > showing it as off. I guess this must be seen as a bug - certainly not

Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-12 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks Gerald, It was on and working. Control Center just confuses the issue by showing it as off. I guess this must be seen as a bug - certainly not useful info! Once more it proves that the console is king! So I now have fetchmail happening and pop popping - time to put some virus stripping

Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Miark
It should start by itself when xinetd starts as the default configuration is for pop3d to run. You'll find the configuration file here: /etc/xinetd.d/pop3s You may also have to set hosts.allow to enable remote connections. Miark Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > I need to set up a

Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Jay
oh yeah, squirrelmail can replace fetchmail with a plugin from the squirrelmail website. -Jay Brian Parish said: > I need to set up a simple mail system using fetchmail, procmail and > pop. Fetchmail is fetching happily. I've installed imap. I can see > pop on my list of services under Control

Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Jay
The easiest mail server to set up (from my experience) is smtp(postfix)/imap using some type of webmail (squirrelmail.org) is nice and easy to install. Install ntsysv package from the 3rd mandrake cd or rpmfind.net and xinted. From the command line type ntsysv and from the menu select imap and pos

[newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Parish
I need to set up a simple mail system using fetchmail, procmail and pop. Fetchmail is fetching happily. I've installed imap. I can see pop on my list of services under Control Center, but it's an xinetd service. Where do I go to configure and start it? I'll keep reading, but if anyone can give