[98533] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Mail Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Mon Nov 9 17:07:33 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 18:38:26 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 10:40 1998-11-09 -0500, ADiehl@hostmarriott.com wrote:
>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.
Try to telnet to the POP3 port to verify the daemon is running and
accepting connections:
telnet linuxbox 110
You should get a POP3 banner. If that works you can either QUIT or login
and retreive a message:
+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at host.domain starting.
user johndoe
+OK Password required for johndoe.
pass MyPassword
+OK johndoe has 16 messages (103408 octets).
stat
+OK 16 103408
retr 1
(server transmits message terminated by a period on a line by itself)
quit
If you run into problems at any point let us know what the error message
is. On my relatively stock RH5.1 system, the mail spool permission is 775.
The mailboxes are 660 except root's, which is 600. I don't konw enough
about using IMAP to be of any help with that.
Tony
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