Message-ID: <38F0AABA.74735BF7@home.com> From: macgreg@home.com Reply-To: macgreg@home.com Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: pop mail server problems References: boundary="------------3FC8A12660CFB6DCF52A3800" Lines: 121 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 16:08:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.10.196.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.ne.home.com 955296485 24.10.196.164 (Sun, 09 Apr 2000 09:08:05 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 09:08:05 PDT Organization: @Home Network Xref: newsread1.funet.fi alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:6894 comp.os.linux.misc:72996 --------------3FC8A12660CFB6DCF52A3800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wojciech Tatina wrote: > I have set up a Linux (Red Hat 6.0) intranet mail server for my network > where the clients are Win98/98/NT machines. I had the full installation of > RedHat > 6.0. The mail server is also the DNS for my network. Sendmail is running > and I added the users to this linux box. The clients could perfectly send > their mails, (Even while mailed with the full qualified names i.e. > user@xyz.com) but were not able to retrieve the mail from the server. Those > mails sent by the clients are reaching properly as I could see them logging > in their respective accounts in the Mail server itself (It gives messages as > "new mail arrived."). As the mail retrieval will be using POP3, what > configurations should I make to the sendmail.cf or elsewhere so that the > clients can read their mails with there own mail clients? I've configured > the mail clients properly. > The message Outlook Express gives is: > > Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for > this include server problems, network problems or a long period of > inactivity. Account:'voytek', server:'mailserv.xyz.com', Protocol:POP3, > Port:110, (:No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F > > And according to the Mail-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOW-TO/ directory I tried to > telnet the POP server by giving the command: > > # telnet 110 > ..It produced output as.. > Trying 192.168.2.3... > Connected to mailserv.xyz.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > (A brief delay of about three to four seconds) > Connection closed by foreign host. > > what am I missing here? Can someone please help me? > > Voytek Tatina > voytek@wtinet.com try this. edit /etc/inetd.conf. uncomment the pop3, pop2, and imap lines. issue the killall-HUP inetd command to re-read the config. then try to check mail. it works for me here ;) -- DO NOT meddle in the affairs of the sysadmins, for they are subtle and QUICK to anger. Be nice to me or I'll replace you with a very small shell script. --Andy --------------3FC8A12660CFB6DCF52A3800 Content-Type: text/html; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wojciech Tatina wrote:
I have set up a Linux (Red Hat 6.0) intranet mail server for my network
where the clients are Win98/98/NT machines. I had the full installation of
RedHat
6.0. The mail server is also the DNS for my network. Sendmail is running
and I added the users to this linux box. The clients could perfectly send
their mails, (Even while mailed with the full qualified names i.e.
user@xyz.com) but were not able to retrieve the mail from the server. Those
mails sent by the clients are reaching properly as I could see them logging
in their respective accounts in the Mail server itself (It gives messages as
"new mail arrived."). As the mail retrieval will be using POP3, what
configurations should I make to the sendmail.cf or elsewhere so that the
clients can read their mails with there own mail clients? I've configured
the mail clients properly.
The message Outlook Express gives is:

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for
this include server problems, network problems or a long period of
inactivity. Account:'voytek', server:'mailserv.xyz.com', Protocol:POP3,
Port:110, (:No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

And according to the Mail-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOW-TO/ directory I tried to
telnet the POP server by giving the command:

# telnet <my mail servers name> 110
..It produced output as..
Trying 192.168.2.3...
Connected to mailserv.xyz.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
(A brief delay of about three to four seconds)
Connection closed by foreign host.

what am I missing here? Can someone please help me?

Voytek Tatina
voytek@wtinet.com

try this.
edit /etc/inetd.conf.
uncomment the pop3, pop2, and imap lines.
issue the killall-HUP inetd command to re-read the config.
then try to check mail. it works for me here ;)
  
-- 
DO NOT meddle in the affairs of the sysadmins,
for they are subtle and QUICK to anger.

Be nice to me or I'll replace you with a very small 
shell script.  --Andy
  --------------3FC8A12660CFB6DCF52A3800--