Excellent, Michael!! 

I didn't know until just a minute ago that Postfix
doesn't include a pop3 daemon. Thanks so much!

By the way, do you think there is any advantage to
using qpopper instead?

Miark



Michael Viron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:

> At 11:03 PM 3/28/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
> >
> >>    * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch
> >>    * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailPostfixTrials
> >
> >These pages didn't really help my specific problem.
> > 
> >> The final piece of the puzzle for me (I hope) was how to set up a pop
> >> (and imap) server under xinetd (sp?).   
> >
> >Does POP run independently of Postfix? I didn't think so. If so, how 
> >-do- you get it running?
> >
> Yes, pop does run independently of postfix.  POP3d is a binary included in
> the imap-* packages, which is controlled by the xinetd superdaemon.
> 
> The steps to getting a working pop3 server are:
> 
> 1.  Make sure that xinetd is installed.  If it isn't, install it.
> 2.  Make sure that all imap-* packages are installed.  If they aren't,
> install them.
> 3.  Make sure that the /etc/xinetd.d/pop3 file is not set as "disabled" --
> if it is, enable it.
> 4.  Finally, restart xinetd.  You should now have a working pop3 server.
> 
> If it still doesn't work, check the following:
> 
> 1.  Verify that xinetd is running.
> 
> 2.  Verify that pop3 is running (ps / netstat are your friends).
> 
> 3.  Try connecting from the local machine -- if it doesn't work, then you
> have some type of configuration issue, quite possibly with hosts.deny
> 
> 4.  If you get a successful connect from the local machine, check remote
> connectivity (ie, from another machine).  If it doesn't work, there is
> either an issue with /etc/hosts.deny or one of the rules in your firewall
> (if you have one in place).
> 
> 5.  Make sure that the username / password is a valid account on the mail
> server.
> 
> If you are still having problems, send the relevant error messages from
> your logs to the list...it is much easier to give more specific ideas if we
> know exactly what the problem is.
> 
> 

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