Neeraj Manral rearranged electrons thusly:
> a linux (redhat6.0) box.How does a user retrieve his mails .
Using a pop server - not using exim (or give him a shell account on the box and
have him use pine / mutt)
> # telnet popserver 110
> Trying 202.54.X.X
> Connected to 202.54.X.X
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> #
> how should i check whether my pop-3d configuration is correct ?
I suppose you _did_ uncomment the line for pop3 in inetd.conf? Something like
this (wrapped across two lines)
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root.mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/chroot /home/popmail /usr/sbin/gnu-pop3d -i
[if you are not running pop3 chrooted, just remove that /usr/sbin/chroot
/home/popmail from the line]
> do i have to do some thing in the Exim configuration file ?
no
oh by the way - upgrade to redhat 6.2 (or at least your kernel, bind and
assorted other packages) if that server you mention has a public ip.
-s (and as you are in india, try http://lists.linux-india.org for non
exim related queries like this <g>)
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