[PLUG] A mail question

[Brian Benson]

Rich, it sounds like qpopper isn't running or you've got some iptables
blocking the conection.

First check if salmo is listening for pop on tcp port 110.

brian at ibook:~$ netstat -ln | grep 110
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     

if its there then you got an iptables problem.
if not then check /etc/inetd.conf (or xinetd) and make sure qpopper
isnt commented out.

pop-3           stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd 
/usr/sbin/in.qpopper -f /etc/qpopper.conf

good luck,
-Brian


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:21:22 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard
<rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    Trying to get my fiancee's machine to access her mail spool on the server.
> This is what I have for qpopper:
> 
> [root at salmo ~]# locate qpopper
> /etc/mail/qpopper.config
> /etc/log.d/conf/services/in.qpopper.conf
> /etc/log.d/scripts/services/in.qpopper
> 
>    But, when she tries to collect mail (with thunderchicken on the ThinkPad)
> a message box pops up "Cannot connect to salmo. Connection refused by
> server."
> 
>    This all worked before, of course. Right now I'm without a clue what piece
> is missing. I'd appreciate a clue card on where to look.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
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> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
> <http://www.appl-ecosys.com>
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