hi Ive been trying to set up a pop3

[jlaverdiere]

hi Ive been trying to set up a pop3 server on my redhat 7.1 system .. I have everything I need ( im using the imap-2 *** rpm on the cd) I have a ipop3 file in xinetd... sendmail is running and the daemon has been started. I am getting no mail using netscape and have configured a user account on netscape but still no mail and no responses. The only clue I have is that when I start the pop3d in usr/sbin I tget a timeout error after a few minutes .. but up till then it says that the server is ready .. any clues ???
I have read just about everything on this package but still cant get mail on my netscape client

 

[marsd]

Not real familiar with xinetd, I do know it is broken right
now, and there is a remote exploit for it(just a heads up-
see securiteam.com or your linux security spot).
For ipop:
can you connect to the server?
telnet localhost 110
If not I would check my logs, reset syslog.conf to debug
daemon traffic, and try it again.(man syslog.conf)
Have you tried to manually start the pop server?
Comment out the load line from xinetd and manually
start the pop server, see if you get a different result.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Do you really want an actual pop3 server or do you just want to collect external email ?
You would only want a server if, for example, you wanted to collect all the mail for a domain (e.g. user.com) and have various users (e.g. joe@user.com, bill@user.com) collect their own stuff from your server. If you just want to collect email as a client it's far easier to configure netscape to point at your isp's pop3/imap server rather than trying to host your own.

Assuming you do want the server, as marsd says you should be able to debug the server by telnetting into it :

telnet 127.0.0.1 110
(when connected)
USER abc
PASS passwd
LIST (Gives list with numbers)
RETR 100 (Displays email number 100)
QUIT

Under Redhat 7.1 all services such as telnet are controlled by xinetd and are often turned off by default. You will need (incl for telnet!) to edit the relevant files under the /etc/xinet.d/ directory (e.g. /etc/xinetd.d/telnet, /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3) and make sure that the 'disable = yes' parameter is changed to 'disable = no' . Once this is done, xinetd will load the relevant service 'on demand'.

Other than that, it might be a sendmail /fetchmail problem.

Rgds