On Wed Sep 23 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Content-Type: text/html;
>       charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

My two pet hates... text/html and q-p for ordinary email.  Totally
unnecessary, extremely ugly, a waste of bandwidth, and a PITA to deal with.
Please don't use it... turn it off in your mailer.

Now, with that off my chest...

> I have now installed Sendmail and altered the config file and used M4, =
> seems to use the updates but I now cannot connect via POP3, I have =
> checked that POP is in the Sendmail.mc file and compiled from that, and =
> its in the "inetd.conf" file but I cannot connect.
> 
> Not even telnet works on port 110.  Anybody have any ideas?

Sendmail is *not* a pop server.  I hope you haven't got inetd configured to
call it for answering port 110 requests!  There are other daemons that are
designed to do that.

In my own /etc/inetd and /etc/services files...

% grep -i pop /etc/inetd.conf /etc/services
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  
/usr/sbin/in.pop2d
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  
/usr/sbin/in.pop3d
/etc/services:pop-2             109/tcp                         # PostOffice V.2
/etc/services:pop-3             110/tcp                         # PostOffice V.3
/etc/services:pop               110/tcp                         # PostOffice V.3
/etc/services:kpop              1109/tcp                        # Pop with Kerberos

I have pop turned off (commented out) in my /etc/inetd.conf file as I'm not
using this box as a pop server.  But you get the idea.

> Does anybody know where I can find out common port number assignments.  =

In your /etc/services file.

> Is it defined in an RFC somewhere?

Yes.  I forget which one.  Oh hang on...  (a quick grep later) RFC 1700

See http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1700.txt

Cheers
Tony

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