POP and IMAP are spawned when a request is made from a client machine.
Xinetd takes care of spawning the sessions.  If you have webmin (I would
recommend webmin), you will need to use it to allow access to the pop3d
and imapd services.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Miller [mailto:cupajavaman@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 11:02 PM
To: kclug
Subject: POP questions

I have a few POP questions. I have SMTP working fine. I have used RPM to
load POP, and IMAP onto my computer. My kernel is 2.4.7-10 with RedHat
distro 7.2.
1.) What is the best way to tell if POP is running? Maybe my question
should be, what is the best way to start POP, and IMAP?
2.) How do I get the POP service to start automatically when I boot up
linux?
copy ipop3d to /etc/rc.d/init.d ?
3.) Currently when I try to "telnet popserver pop-3" replacing popserver
with my servers name. I get a "connection refused error message".  Is
this because POP is not running correctly, a services, or a port
firewall problem? I am running the test on the same machine as the
popserver.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

THX,

Kent Miller