Hello Rick,

RB> No errors. Of course, no response either. Nothing happening... I'm
RB> looking into xinetd for a moment.

Well, we would have gotten to asking about xinetd when we got to the
POP problem... B-)

If xinetd is a problem, though, you'll see an error when dbmail-pop3d
tries to start - something about unable to bind to the port, because
something else (xinetd) has control of it already. Same for
dbmail-imapd, because the default setting for xinetd is to hang onto
both ports 110 and 143.

RB> Alas... Let me go find a Postfix forum and read up.

If you're seeing no error messages from postfix when it starts up, but
the Windows box can't connect to port 25, make sure that the Windows
box doesn't have some form of firewall running, or virus scanner. Both
Norton and Trend (and presumably others) have scanners that will
silently wedge themselves as proxies between Outlook/Outlook Express
and POP/IMAP servers, redirecting the connections to 127.0.0.1, and
then making the "real" connection to the server themselves... And
they're sometimes REALLY DUMB about how to log in properly. Outlook
will think it has a valid connection, but won't reach the server.

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