ports are open, but connection refused

[MiniMe001]

I don't know if this is specific to qmail or not. I got everything working okay, but I can't download my mail. I set up Thunderbird to download it and got a connection refused error. Figured maybe my ISP was blocking port 110. So I switched to a high-level port (tried a few)--didn't help.
Is there something else I need to open/enable/whatever?

 

[thedaver]

You can test this via telnet to see what the issue is, probably an authentication problem...

"telnet mail.example.com 110"

receive a banner from POP3 server

"user username[@example.com]"

receive an acknowledgement

"pass [password]"

receive an acknowledgement

"list"

should show a list of available email messages by number and size (and not much else)

"quit"

If you can do this, the problem is not with POP3 or the user account.

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[MiniMe001]

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

 

[MiniMe001]

Even tried disabling all my firewalls and trying to telnet to 127.0.0.1 using multiple ports. NOTHING works. wtf.

 

[slylos]

are you absolutely sure you have a tcpserver binary listening on that port? I had a problem similar to yours and I figured out that I never started tcpserver to listen on port 110

 

[thedaver]

please post the output of "lsof -Pni"

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[MiniMe001]

wow, what'dya know. I'm pretty new at the whole server buisness. So how do I set it to listen at port 110?

COMMAND     PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
dhclient   1564    root    5u  IPv4   2706       UDP *:68
portmap    1639     rpc    3u  IPv4   2910       UDP *:111
portmap    1639     rpc    4u  IPv4   2911       TCP *:111 (LISTEN)
rpc.statd  1659 rpcuser    4u  IPv4   2945       UDP *:32768
rpc.statd  1659 rpcuser    5u  IPv4   2935       UDP *:987
rpc.statd  1659 rpcuser    6u  IPv4   2948       TCP *:32769 (LISTEN)
sshd       2005    root    3u  IPv6   3297       TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
xinetd     2020    root    5u  IPv4   3343       TCP 127.0.0.1:32770 (LISTEN)
httpd      2066    root    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd      2066    root    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
sshd       3248    root    4u  IPv6  68878       TCP 192.168.1.101:22->192.168.1.103:3963 (ESTABLISHED)
sshd       3250   skara    4u  IPv6  68878       TCP 192.168.1.101:22->192.168.1.103:3963 (ESTABLISHED)
mysqld     4958   mysql    3u  IPv4  13788       TCP *:3306 (LISTEN)
tcpserver  5069  qmaild    3u  IPv4  14039       TCP *:25 (LISTEN)
named      5402   named   20u  IPv4  15260       UDP 127.0.0.1:53
named      5402   named   21u  IPv4  15261       TCP 127.0.0.1:53 (LISTEN)
named      5402   named   22u  IPv4  15262       UDP 192.168.1.101:53
named      5402   named   23u  IPv4  15263       TCP 192.168.1.101:53 (LISTEN)
named      5402   named   24u  IPv4  15264       UDP *:32848
named      5402   named   25u  IPv6  15265       UDP *:32849
ircd      15491    root    0u  IPv4  32770       UDP *:32873
ircd      15491    root    2u  IPv4  32772       TCP *:6398 (LISTEN)
ircd      15491    root    3u  IPv4  32773       TCP *:5823 (LISTEN)
ircd      15491    root    4u  IPv4  32774       TCP *:6667 (LISTEN)
ircd      15491    root    5u  IPv4  32775       TCP *:8067 (LISTEN)
ircd      15491    root    6u  IPv4  32776       TCP *:6697 (LISTEN)
ircd      15491    root    7u  IPv4  32794       TCP 127.0.0.1:5823->127.0.0.1:33077 (ESTABLISHED)
services  15495    root    1u  IPv4  32793       TCP 127.0.0.1:33077->127.0.0.1:5823 (ESTABLISHED)
cupsd     15921    root    0u  IPv4  34658       TCP 127.0.0.1:631 (LISTEN)
cupsd     15921    root    2u  IPv4  34659       UDP *:631
httpd     16128  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16128  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16129  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16129  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16130  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16130  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16131  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16131  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16132  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16132  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16133  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16133  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16134  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16134  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
httpd     16135  apache    3u  IPv6   3427       TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd     16135  apache    4u  IPv6   3429       TCP *:443 (LISTEN)

 

[thedaver]

You need to read through Life with Qmail or another qmail reference. You're pretty far beyond the scope of a simple help forum like this...

http://www.lifewithqmail.org

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[MiniMe001]

yeah, I read LwQ to set it up. It doesn't have anything about setting up pop3d, though.
I actually..sorta..did it, though. After googleing 20 or so tutorials on setting it up, I finally put a few of them together and mushed up the following scripts if you're interested:
pop3d/run

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 30000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \
  -H -l jumpfrog.no-ip.org \
  -v -x /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb -c 30 -R 0 pop3 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup jumpfrog.no-ip.org \
/var/lib/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

pop3d/log/run

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 \
        n30 /var/log/qmail/pop3d

I say sorta because Thunderbird still won't read the mail... ^^; It does connect. It just sits there, though, doing nothing. Weird.

 

[MiniMe001]

yhack!! I thought I had it. I just had to edit /usr/bin/qmailctl to get it all running at once. ^^; slipped my mind to do that part too.
changed this part too:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 110 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup 127.0.0.1 \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

Anyway, it asks for my pass but doesn't take it:
"Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server * responded: unable to write pipe
...what's a pipe and why can't it write to it?
*tries more things*
aha, didn't have checkpassword installed...