Damon,
give this a try (you may need to alter the locations etc)
Place this in a file called ipop3 in /etc/xinetd.d
and ensure in your /etc/xinetd.conf, you have this line
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:20, Damon Lynch wrote:# default: off
# description: The POP3 service allows remote users to access their mail \
# using an POP3 client such as Netscape Communicator, mutt, \
# or fetchmail.
service pop3
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}
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> > Hello!
>
> Using Linux Mandrake 7.2, normal installation, how is pop3 e-mail
> enabled? From what I can gather, xinetd is now being used instead of
> inetd. I therefore assume that xinetd needs to be configured to enable
> pop3 access--is this true? Currently, users from other machines on the
> network are getting an error message similar to: "server unexpectedly
> terminated the connection". I cannot find any warnings or errors under
> the log files in the mail directory.
>
> I was not able to find any example configuration file for pop3 in the
> man pages for xinetd.conf or xinetd.
>
> Thank-you,
>
> Damon
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