I'm slowly learning about email services, but it would help if someone could answer / confirm the following:
I am running the MandrakeFreq version of Mandrake 7.2. Scenario 1: * When I run "service inetd status" I get "inetd: unrecognized service". * When I run "service xinetd status" I get "xinetd (pid 411) is running..." * I can confirm that pop3 is running by telneting to port 110 and "conversing" with it. I assume then, that pop3 must have been started by xinetd? (or at least that is most likely, and that it was unlikely to have been started by inetd) Continuing: * There is no line in xinetd.conf to start pop3 like there is in inetd.conf. There is a file in the directory /etc/xinetd.conf named ipop3 which I assume is somehow automatically initiated by xinetd or some mechanism like the startup files in rc.d? * In that ipop3 file, there is a line "# default: on" and I'm assuming that is what makes the service start? * When I try to "converse" with imap (on port 143) with lines like "A001 user <username> <password>" and quite a few variations (with and without the A001), I get no useful response -- I get an indication that whatever I typed is bad. (I do get the OK imapserver ... server ready" when I first telnet in.) I don't know whether the imap server is running or not -- I mean, I think it's running based on the ready, but like I said above, it is not giving a useful response to anything I type. * When I looked at the imap file under /etc/xinetd.d, the "default line" said off. I changed it to on, saved the file, and then did a "server xinetd restart". I still get the same behavior on telneting in to port 143. * I then did a "ps -Al | grep map" (as root) and found the imapd daemon. (BTW -- what is the accepted pronunciation of daemon?) I did not find anything when I did "ps -Al | grep pop". Any hints on what I'm doing wrong, overlooking, should try next, etc.? Off Topic Question: I'm using MandrakeFreq 7.2 intentionally because this is an older box without much memory (133 MHz, 64 MB). When I installed it, I installed it from the bootable MandrakeFreq 7.2 CD on a wiped hard drive. Is that the recommended installation procedure for a MandrakeFreq update, or should I have installed it "over" a Mandrake 7.2 installation. If so, give me some hints on how to do that. (I suspect I should have installed it over the Mandrake 7.2 installation, because some things that, IIRC, were present in 7.2 are not present now. (Can't immediately think of an example, though.) Thanks, Randy Kramer
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