POP questions

[Joshua Bergland]

A few things ---

As root - 

Make sure to edit the corresponding configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d/
Making sure to change disable=yes to disable=no

Also, if you installed the default firewall on installation, you will
need to edit the script etc/sysconfig/ipchains

May need to add a line like:

-A input -d 0/0 110 -p tcp -i eth0 -j ACCEPT

This allows all incoming connections on the pop3 port (110)

Then make sure to restart the xinetd and ipchains daemons ... 

/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains restart
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

Hope this helps,

Josh Bergland

On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 23:01, Kent Miller wrote:
> 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
>