The problem was something to do with localhost (127.0.0.1). For some unknown
reason it didn't take effect or was in the wrong place or something.
I had played around and then it worked.
Basically fetchmail tried to deliver the mail locally on 127.0.0.1 but the
firewall rejected it... hmmm.. good lesson to learn.
thanks for the help to all.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: tom burkart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:36 AM
Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [SLUG] fetchmail POP3 problem
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote:
> Aha!!!! Damn firewall rules...
Firewalls are good ;-)
> OK. I got as far as opening up my INPUT and OUPUT rules to default as
> "ACCEPT" and it's now working but I don't know what's it trying to connect
> to or on..??
Try using iplog - this logs icmp, tcp and icmp packets.
> It's open for loop back (127.0.0.1) and inbound on port 25 so what else is
> missing..?
POP is on port 110. I suspect you need to modify some of the rules...
tom.
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