Hello Chris!
Your inetd.conf seems fine. You should check if you really have the daemon
"in.pop3d" in your /usr/sbin directory. Common mistakes like this one can
be easily detected just by analyzing the file /var/log/secure. Take a look
at it.
Also, you should check if the files /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow
has any line that prohibits the daemon in.pop3d from being executed.
/var/log/secure will that you that too.
Finally, there's a better way to check if your POP3 server is up. Instead
of asking Netscape to check mail, telnet directly to the POP3 port (por
110), like this:
Type: "telnet pop.server.com 110"
And you should get something like this: "+OK POP3 server ready"
If you don't see this, then you have a serious problem. But if you do see
this message, try to login:
user yourusername
pass yourpassword
After you are logged in, these commands might be usefull to you:
list (lists all messages, with their sizes)
retr # (gets the message with this number)
top # 0 (gets only the header of the message with this number)
quit (to logoff nicelly)
For your last question, normally, it is not possible to read root's mail
using POP3. Most POP3 daemons prohibits reading mail from userids smaller
than 100 (I guess).
Hope I could help a bit.
Good luck!!!
Henrique Pantarotto
>To preface, I have a box with Red Hat 5.1 (2.0.36) and sendmail 8.9.3
>installed and running. I am the mail server/relay station for the
>system's users and their mail resides on this machine.
>Anyways, what I am trying to do is setup in.pop3d (or some other POP3
>daemon) to allow users to check their mail via the POP3 mail protocol
>with a client such as Netscape or even the dreaded Hotmail POP access.
>When I attempt to check foo's mail via POP3 in Netscape (for example), I
>can get as far as contacting the server and beginning to send login
>info. Right then my Linux box disconnects me (from the mail server
>connection) and Netscape complains about how I should contact the sys
>admin (which I ironically am).
>
>Here's what the mail section of my /etc/inetd.conf file looks like:
>
># Pop and imap mail services et al
>#
>pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
>#pop-2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
>#pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
>#imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
>
>I have commented out the others (pop-2, pop-3 and imap) because I was
>perusing some online documentation which said to put the other line (not
>commented above) in there instead. Yielded no changes in access...
>
>In /etc/services I have these lines as well as several others:
>
>#pop-2 109/tcp # PostOffice V.2
>#pop-3 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3
>#pop 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3
>pop3 110/tcp # POP Version 3
>
>Again, I added and commented out to reflect changes made in inetd.conf.
>Then I restarted inetd with a kill -HUP <pid> and it still didn't work.
>I am wondering what's up with my configuration and if, in fact, it is
>the configuration or it is a server problem. My machine has a domain
>name and all, so should I configure it to have a mail1.foo.com MX record
>for mail or is that even necessary? As it is, I have a CNAME for
>mail.foo.com (foo.com being my domain) which I am using to connect (it's
>CNAME'd to foo.com anyways, so I could use foo.com instead). I
>dunno...any ideas/suggestions/docs would be more than welcomed on this.
>Thanks in advance!
>PS: can I check root's mail via POP3?
Henrique Pantarotto
Coord. T�cnico Operacional
CEPAnet Internet Provider
Web: http://www.cepa.com.br
Tel. suporte: (011) 5506-8477
Sao Paulo - Brasil
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