[newbie] xinetd and imap questions

2002-07-30 Thread Randy Kramer
I'm slowly learning about email services, but it would help if someone could answer / confirm the following: I am running the MandrakeFreq version of Mandrake 7.2. Scenario 1: * When I run "service inetd status" I get "inetd: unrecognized service". * When I run "service xinetd status" I

Dialog with imap via telnet? (was Re: [newbie] xinetd and imap questions)

2002-07-30 Thread Randy Kramer
Thanks very much! I spent some time viewing /var/log/syslog, and that was helpful. I can't find anything else that is starting imapd (in rc.d, or elsewhere), yet because of the ready line when I telnet to port 143, I believe it is starting. In /var/log/syslog I found that my problem is usually

Re: [newbie] xinetd and imap questions

2002-07-30 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Randy, see below. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >* When I run "service inetd status" I get "inetd: unrecognized > service". > >* When I run "service xinetd status" I get "xinetd (pid 411) is > running..." inetd is superseeded by xinetd (eXtended inetd), so one excludes the oth