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Re: Mail Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Levitsky)
Mon Nov 9 12:56:57 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 11:41:58 -0500
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From: Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk@mindspring.com>
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iott.com>
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I didn't see you mention that you are running the POPd or the IMAPd
-Josh
At 10:40 AM 11/9/98 , ADiehl@hostmarriott.com wrote:
>Hi,
>I've checked the archives for POP-3 related questions, I figured "mail" was
>too vague. Please forgive if this has been answered before.
>
>I am having problems with mail services. I want to set up
>mail so that users can access their mail via POP-3. I have
>tried to troubleshoot the problem in great detail and have
>reached wits end. Here is what has been done, I will try
>to be brief.
>
>After much testing, I isolated the Linux machine and one
>other UNIX machine on a hub with no other connections. The
>machines were configured with the same IP scheme and ping
>from host to host works. Sendmail seems to work. I can
>send mail to local and remote users. Knowing that mail
>exists in /var/spool/mail, I have tested with three mail
>readers with multiple configurations. The readers are
>/usr/bin/mail, Pine and Netscape. Here is a synopsis of
>the results.
>
>1. Remote client was unable to retrieve mail with Netscape
> via POP-3 and IMAP-4.
>2. Remote client was unable to retrieve mail with Pine
> via IMAP.
>3. On the server, /usr/bin/mail works and Pine works when
> using default configuration. However, when configuring
> to use the SMTP server (itself via IMAP) Pine is unable
> to retrieve mail. It complains about a broken IMAP
> connection. Also Netscape could not retrieve via POP-3
> and failed when using "move mail" settings. At least at
> this point, Netscape gave a clue about the mail directory
> needing to be set with permissions 01777. This allowed
> Netscape to work locally but still fails via POP-3.
>
>I have checked /etc/services, /etc/inittab and /etc/inetd.conf.
>I believe all TCP/IP services required are being started. The
>Linux Network Administrators Guide seems to focus on smail
>instead of sendmail. Should this be considered? Any help
>will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Aaron Diehl
>Sr. Database Administrator
>Host Marriott Corporation
>
>
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