pop3 server- how?

[bdog]

I have a drake 7.1 box set up. Postfix is working and SMTP works just fine. The problem is receiving mail. I know you need a seperate pop3 daemon, but isn't there one included by default? I am talking about the pop3 you see in inetd.conf. I assume it is running since port 110 is open on my machine. Where are the settings and config files for this? I can connect to the linux box with my windows email clients and send mail, but I can't receive it even though it is in the users mailbox when I log onto the linux box.

[lone-nut]

Doesn't yer ISP give you a pop3???

I need to fix all my mail stuff too... can't send using Netscape...

I run Drake 7.1 too...

-ln

[Iceman]

Hello bdog and lone-nut:

Still a newbie myself, but am running MDK 7.1

AFAIK, the pop3 daemon is installed by default. Did on mine.

Now a quick question...you did go into the preferences for NS messenger and enter the names of the pop, smtp and news servers, right?

My particular misery was with getting a recalcitrant NE2K PCMCIA card working. Once connected, all was grand.

Please repost if you're still stuck...but do be kind enough to include type of connection (DSL, CAble or Dialup.)

Cheers and Good Luck!

The Iceman

[bdog]

Thanks for the replies. I am on a university network. Currently I have a NT box as our web / ftp & email server. I would very much like to replace it with a penguin powered version but I haven't got the email server figured out yet.

I was able to send and receive mail using Kmail on the linux box. The problem was that when I tried to check my mail from another machine using a pop3 client it didn't work. I just get some sort of fatal error message about unable to establish connection with pop3 server. Do I just use the users name and password that is used to logon? Also I double checked and I am not blocking pop3 connection with my firewall or wrappers. I just don't know how to get this working. I have looked for help files and can't find any.

[Craig McPherson]

You use fetchmail to download your mail.

You'd only need a pop3 daemon if you wanted other people to download mail from YOUR machine.

[bdog]

Thanks for the reply Craig, but other people are downloading mail from my machine. My current NT box is serving mail for a dozen people who connect with eudora, outlook, netscape etc to get and send their mail.

I am trying to set the Linux box up as an email server for these people.

[bdog]

^

[ssadams]

edit your /etc/inetd file by removing the # from the pop3 and/or imap listings,save the new file and in a term enter killall -HUP inetd to restart.

[bdog]

Thanks for the reply ssadams, but I already did that. I also added ipop3d to the hosta.allow. I simply can not connect to the linux box with email clients on other machines. Everything works perfectly on the Linux box, I can also even send mail form other machines, but can't check it.

[mdwatts]

If you are using Linux as a mail server, I believe you will need to setup and configure sendmail for this.

Lots of documentation at sendmail.org

[johnsi]

I went through the same issues (postfix working, etc.) and after spending a day trying to solve the problem, I discovered that I had to install the IMAP rpm. I discovered that ipop3d was missing in the /usr/sbin directory.

[Craig McPherson]

I use solid-pop3d. It's very simple to set up and works just fine.

Find it, download it, install it. This is the config file I use:

<Global>
MailDropName "/var/spool/mail/%s"
MailDropType mailbox
</Global>

Yes, that's the ENTIRE thing. That's all it takes. That's even the default config file: I didn't have to change a thing.

Set it to run from inet, and you're set.