Sendmail/POP Configuration Help!!

[Claypots]

Hello,

I moved my server from my co-located location and upgraded to RH 7.2. I'm trying to configure sendmail so I can receive my emails but I am having problems. The email accounts hang when they try to authorize..and finally I receive this response from Outlook:

'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server.'

Any ideas?

 

[RhythmAce]

Sendmail is not a pop server. It receives the mail and hands it over to the local mailer (procmail on linux). In any case, all of a users mail is stored in a directory in a file with the users name. For example on linux it's /var/spool/mail/username. A pop3 server will listen on port 110 and will fulfill a request by retrieving the file and serving it to the mail client where it gets devided up into separate e-mails. If these files exist on the server then sendmail has done it's job and you just have to set up a popmail server to do the rest.

 

[seeprakash]

Hi
so u r using ms outlook/express

sendmail is just a MTA ,it just accept the mails for the
specified domains and routes the mails to the destination
domains

In order to get u r mails through a pop3 client like OE

u have to enable the pop3 service(proto)

u r using RHL 7.2

so edit /etc/xinetd.d/pop3s

there u will find entries like this


service pop3s
{
disable=yes
-----
------
}

just u have to enable the service

change disable=yes to disable=no


save the file


and restart xinetd


just run service xinetd restart

thats it
it should work
Techbee
Prakash

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

To install the redhat pop3 server, somewhat confusingly you actually have to install the 'imap' rpm which has both imap and pop3 daemons --> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/imap-2000c-15.i386.rpm .

Just download somewhere, change directory to the download location and install as root with :

rpm -Uvh imap-*.rpm

Then do :

/sbin/chkconfig ipop3 on (regular pop3)

or

/sbin/chkconfig pop3s on (pop3 over ssl)

Hope this helps

 

[Claypots]

Does anyone know where I can find professional help for configuration?