Hello! First of all, newbie is typically spelled N-E-W-B-I-E :) Details,
details.
Your assessment of possible problems with inetd.conf seems likely. Note
that it is no longer recommended that you run smtp services under inetd,
and that you use tcpserver instead. You can find out everything you need
to know about tcpserver here:
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
and here:
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
As for POP3, you can run it under tcpserver as well, but if you want to
leave it in inetd, you should have a line that looks something like this:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper popper
where popper is a POP3 server that you know to work with your config.
The other avenue to explore is making sure that you're not blocking access
to your mail services from the outside world with tcp wrappers. Chances
are your system has tcp wrappers installed, so you want to look for
/usr/local/etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.allow and then read
# man 5 hosts_access
(or the equivalent on your system) to make sure the proper traffic can get
through.
This should at least get you started in the right direction. Unlikely as
it might seem, your problem can probably be solved by some or all of the
qmail documentation.
Chris
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, [windows-1255] ���� ����� wrote:
> Hello
> I hope im doing this right :-)
> i'm new to qmail, in fact i just installed it...
> i read all the faqs and guides, and i still have some questions:
> (bare in mind im not that genius with unix, so forgive me if those r stupid
> questions)
> i want to be able to use qmail as my mail server software.
> as such, i want it to be able to answer both smtp and pop3 requests.
> while inside the unix box, my config works fine, im not able to use it, from
> outside
> i guess thats because i havent configured properly the services in the
> inetd.conf file
> now, i saw the line about configuring the smtp service, and did that
> but no text was given about the pop3 service, which is also needed by me...
> perhaps i got it all wrong
> can someone please shed some light on this subject?
>
> thanks a bunch in advance
>
> Haim
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