[98577] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Mail Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 9 19:00:53 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 18:48:03 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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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.
On your RedHat mail server machine, install the imap package,
which contains the POP3 server.
# rpm -Uvh imap-4.4-2.i386.rpm
That should be all you need, if smtp mail is already working.
>
>
> 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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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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