Re: Mail doesn't get delivered to qpopper

[Shaun Landau]

The situation is this: I am trying to send mail from my hotmail account to an email account/server (qpopper) that exists on one of my machines. I can configure my outlook express to connect to the qpopper POP server but there is never any mail to download. Furthermore, the mail that I attempt to send is never bounced back to my hotmail account as undeliverable. Where is the mail going? Sendmail SMTP service is also running on this machine but port 25 is not accessible to the internet.   Perhaps my understanding of mail delivery is lacking. Here's my understanding of how things work:   1) when sending a message, an SMTP server connects to the recipient POP server and the message is transferred 2) when retrieving the message, a connection to the POP server is made using a mail client (eg outlook express)   Is this not the way things work? Are you suggesting that there is an intermediate storage place/service, other than the POP server, that manages messages and that the POP server merely pulls messages from this service?   Shaun   ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Santiago To: Subscribers of Qpopper Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:18 AM Subject: RE: Mail doesn't get delivered to qpopper Shau,   Ok, my mistake... from where are you trying to pick your mail up?  >From your ISP mailbox?  If so, you have to install Fetchmail, Exim or Sendmail first on your local system.  The MTA is the one responsible for delivering mail to your system mailbox,  which in turn is where Qpopper picks up mail and sends them to you through POP protocol.....  Hope this helps.... -----Original Message----- From: Shaun Landau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2002 13:46 To: Peter Santiago; Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: Re: Mail doesn't get delivered to qpopper Thanks for the quick reply.   If by MTA you mean outgoing/SMTP server, I don't have access to check where it's trying to send the mail ... I'm using my ISP's SMTP service.   I didn't actually do a make install so there are no directories of any kind for the qpopper service ... executable was just copied into the /usr/sbin directory and started with xinetd. I don't know where messages for this service are being logged to. I have checked /var/log/messages but there appears to be no entries for this service.   Shaun ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Santiago To: Shaun Landau ; Subscribers of Qpopper Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:51 PM Subject: RE: Mail doesn't get delivered to qpopper What's your MTA?  Check where your MTA is delivering mail, then check if it's the same place where qpopper is picking up the mail... (Hint... check your log files =^^=). -----Original Message----- From: Shaun Landau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2002 12:41 To: Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: Mail doesn't get delivered to qpopper I have installed qpopper and I'm able to connect to the server as a POP user to retrieve mail. However all attempts to deliver mail to the the server result in nothing happening at all ... I don't get an NDR of any kind and I the mail doesn't get delivered to the intended recipient/mailbox.   Any ideas?   Thanks!