Re: [SLUG] sendmail

From: Patrick Grantham (pwgrant@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 15:29:05 EST


near as I can tell pop3 is NOT running. I am not yet certain as to why.
However, in inetd.conf and entry pop3 references /usr/sbin/popper which does
not exist.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Miller" <mmiller1@mptotalcare.com>
To: "SLUG List" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] sendmail

> On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 13:42, Grantham, Patrick wrote:
> > I have my box received mail, but I can't configure win clients to
retreive
> > email from the accounts
> > Outlook gives the error:
> > Unable to connect to server: error 0x800ccc0e
> >
> > For the POP3 host name, on the client, I am using the actual IP for the
> > server. Both the client and the server are on the same private subet.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> Are you running a pop3 service? Sendmail is typically used as MTA and/or
> MDA. An additional pop3 server service should be running and listening
> on port 110 (tcp and udp) or even better with ssl on port 995.
> Do a "# netstat -l" to see what ports your box is currently listening
> on. Alternately, you can run "# nmap -p 1-1024 localhost".
>
> If pop3 is running and listening, I would check if you any running any
> firewall rules that may prevent users from accessing the pop3 port(s).
> Matt
>
>



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