Type in
telnet themachineyou'reworkingon 25
(Wait a few seconds then type (not a typo below))
HELO themachineyou'reworkingon
It should say pleased to meet you ect ect.
If it does not say pleased to meet you then sendmail is not configured
properly and that is what's giving you hell.
As for qpopper, I've never used it (gnu-pop3d is my drug of choice), but
the behaviour you're describing could be sendmail related.
-David Talbot
At 11:40 PM 6/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello again
>
>I'm going to try this one last time before I give up.
>A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams
>one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine.
>A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a
>complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing
>qpopper.
>Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it
>want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't
>get any of thm to work.
>When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have
>0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no
>new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it.
>
>Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am
>about to give up.
>
>Thanks
