Quoth Suresh Ramasubramanian on Fri, Oct 20, 2000:
> Neeraj Manral rearranged electrons thusly:
> > # 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
It seems like TCPwrappers problem. Check /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny.
Vadik.
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