Thanks Gerald, It was on and working. Control Center just confuses the issue by showing it as off. I guess this must be seen as a bug - certainly not useful info!
Once more it proves that the console is king! So I now have fetchmail happening and pop popping - time to put some virus stripping in the middle and see how much I can screw it up ;-) thanks again Brian On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 18:32, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Friday 10 May 2002 01:18 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > I need to set up a simple mail system using fetchmail, procmail and > > pop. Fetchmail is fetching happily. I've installed imap. I can see pop > > on my list of services under Control Center, but it's an xinetd > > service. Where do I go to configure and start it? I'll keep reading, > > but if anyone can give me a quick boot in the right direction... > > Try the old fashon method: > In a shell session run > chkconfig --lists | grep pop > You will see ipop3 [ on or off ] > to turn it on run > chkconfig ipop3 on > then reload xinetd > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd reload > > -- > Gerald Waugh > http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 > Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks & Web Site Hosting > 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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