Getting POP3 up and running on MDrake 7.2

[coloradoiscool]

Hi everyone.

I have scoured the forum and have not found a way to have pop3 run properly on my mailserver. I have a Mandrake 7.2 server with postfix up and running fine. I performed a server class install, have checked inetd.conf for '#' on pop3, checked that imap is installed and opened up my hosts.allow to imap but still am not having luck.

When I telnet into port 110, it connects, gives me the escape character, and then blank line. When I type anything, it jumps down to "Connection closed by foreign host."

Does anyone know where I might have missed something?

Thank you so much for your help! I love this forum--there's lots of info available without actually having to post (many, many searches here...)

Cheers,
Henry

[ndelo]

Originally posted by coloradoiscool:

imap is installed and opened up my hosts.allow to imap but still am not having luck.

Check and make sure that there is access to pop3d in your hosts.allow (or whatever the pop3 daemon is called in inetd.conf--I think it may be ipop3d, but I'm not sure).

[coloradoiscool]

What should hosts.allow look like?

ALL:IMAP
ALL:IPOP3D

or can I specify ports...
110:IMAP
110:IPOP3D

Thanks again,
Henry

[ndelo]

I cannot recall exactly what I did as I did it at work a few months back, but I think I put in all: ipop3d.(I'm still a bit of a newbie, but I did have this exact problem when setting up a test mail server). I'm at home right now on my win98 machine so I can't check that box. As a first attempt--to narow the problem--I would try giving access to everything in your hosts.allow (I think its all: all). If that clears up the problem, then at least you know the problem has to do with that file. From there you can try tightening things up. Also, try ipchains -L to make sure that no firewalls rules are in effect. If you are just using POP3, you can leave IMAP out. I would also comment it out in inetd.conf.

[This message has been edited by ndelo (edited 10 December 2000).]

[coloradoiscool]

Ah, ok... I was able to get it sort of working by commenting the hosts.deny file (all entries), and then using your suggestions for the hosts.allow. Obviously I'll need to tighten things up soon, but I really would like to have this working this week.

Thank you for your help. If you have sample hosts.deny/allow I'd learn something from looking at them...henry_ammons@hotmail.com

Again, thank you!
Henry