ipop3 connection refused?

[iron32]

Hi, I'm running a redhat 9 server and when trying to setup ipop3 port 110 will not open. I have tried telneting into 110 with no success. So I began thinking this is a firewall issue, so I stopped service on iptables. Still same result, connection refused. I did a netstat and it does not show any listening on port 110 and I also did a chkconfig list to see if ipop3 is running and it is on. Also I have edited the ipop3 config file and set "disable = no". I have double checked my hosts files and /etc/mail/access file and they all seem to be correct.
I have restarted xinetd several times after making changes to no avail.

If anyone has an idea of what could be stopping the port it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Iron

 

[awingnut]

If you are getting 'connection refused' it is probably not a firewall problem. Normally that message means the host is reachable but the port is not open (firewall blocking would result in just a time out). Have you run a port scan against that host to see what ports are open? Is it possible that /etc/services is messed up for pop?

 

[iron32]

I checked my services file and it has both entries tcp & udp
pop3 110/tcp pop-3
pop3 110/udp pop-3

This is my access file
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
mydomain.net RELAY
mail.mydomain.net RELAY

This is my pop3 file
service pop3
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += HOST DURATION
log_on_failure += HOST
instances = 150
cps = 70 30
}


Thanks for the reply and I hope someone might see where im going wrong, Thanks

 

[nawlej]

Check your logs, it might not be coming up for some reason. What happens when you try to manually bring the daemon online?

 

[nawlej]

my file has disable set to yes and the service is running, by the way.

 

[nawlej]

Sorry for all the posts folks....

Check this out:

http://www.vanemery.com/Protocols/POP/pop3-rh9-howto.html