sendmail and pop3

[benp07]

i am runing a mail server with the latest sendmail and i had every thing working great and the for some reason the pop server does not work i dont know if it got turned off or something like that it will not let me tell net into it maybe there is some kind of command that i can run the smtp works great i just lost my pop somehow please help

thanks alot
Ben

 

[bgarlock]

What distro are you running? Try testing out connectivity to the pop server from another *nix machine, by doing:

telnet machineip 110

You should get a "connected" message, and probably the server name/version. If not, then it is either firewalled, or not running. In RH 7.2, as root type:

chkconfig pop3 on Bruce Garlock
bruceg@tiac.net

http://bruceg.dyndns.org

 

[BobMCT]

On our SuSE Linux 7.3 we had to install "qpopper" and be sure it was defined in the inetd.conf file. After that it's worked perfectly.