Yes, that was it. Thank you very much. I owe you a pint. I'll have to
drive down to Edinburgh for one of these curry nights some time.
Cheers!
-dan
On Thursday 22 February 2001 11:02, you wrote:
> Dan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > I've got some problems getting pop3 (or imap, for that matter) to respond
> > through inetd. I'm running Mandrake 7.2. The inetd.conf file has an
> > entry that looks like:
> >
> > pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
> >
> > The services file has an entry that looks like:
> >
> > pop3 110/tcp pop-3
> >
> > I've been running inetd in debug mode to see its status. It is
> > responding properly to a telnet on port 110--that is, it claims it's
> > forwarding the request on to pop3.
> >
> > I've double checked to ensure that ipop3d is indeed in /usr/sbin. But
> > nothing ever responds. After about 5 seconds the request times out.
> >
> > Any ideas what's going on? Could it have anything to do with a failing
> > tcpd? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Does your /etc/hosts.deny say
> ALL: ALL
>
> If so you might want to add to /etc/hosts.allow
>
> ipop3d: ALL
>
>
> just a guess
>
> HTH
>
> Lawrence
>
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