check your /etc/hosts.allow file and make sure you have permissions from the outside world to use qpopper on that port... such as:
qpopper : ALL : allow I ran into this problem when I ran qpopper and /etc/hosts.allow was set up to recognize "popper" instead. At 07:21 PM 9/3/02 -0400, you wrote: >Hello all, > >I have installed qpopper from the ports collection on freebsd 4.5. I'm >trying to test it locally from the machine itself and if I telnet to >localhost on port 110 everything works perfectly. If I telnet to the machine >name or the IP address this is what I get: > >vanessa# telnet vanessa 110 >Trying 192.168.0.50... >Connected to vanessa. >Escape character is '^]'. >Connection closed by foreign host. >vanessa# > >The connection immediately gets closed. I'm sure this isn't a qpopper >problem but I've been scratching my head form a while trying to figure out >why this is failing. > >Any thoughts? > >Thanks for your help.
