Jim Mirick wrote:
A little more diagnosis: /var/log/messages has some things from popa3d, as
when I log on as root and then execute popa3d from the command line to
look at my mailbox (I say USER JRM etc.).
Amazing. Now everything is through and said ... .
Do we agree on some basics here ? Does RHEL eventually start popa3d by
default ? can you do some 'ps ax | grep pop' before and after you start it ?
And then, what does "I can connect via command line" mean ? what do you
type ? Be specific, please !
Did you try to telnet from the client (the one you run Thunderbird on)
to the server ?
What distro does the client (the one running Thunderbird) use ? Also
RedHat ?
It might help you could install nmap on that machine and then issue some
'nmap -v 123.123.123.123' (replace 123.123.123.123 with the IP of the
server).
And add the 'some things from popa3d' for us to see, please !
However, if I log on to Linux as JRM and try to execute popa3d it says
"command not found", even if I cd to /usr/sbin where the executable is.
Try to run it as root, instead !
By now I could as well suggest to de-install and purge all configuration
(no idea how to do on RedHat, sorry), and install from scratch.
So I suspect there is a permissions problem. I have changed the permissions
for popa3d in /usr/sbin to "everybody can execute" it still won't execute it
for anybody except root.
That sits on another sheet of paper. root is the correct user to execute
popa3d for the time and purpose being.
Is there a config file for popa3d somewhere? I can't find one. How does it
know what to do?
I don't know about RedHat, but it doesn't need one, basically. It
'knows' what to do: read from the mail-spool on request on port 110.
HTH,
Uwe
