[Wylug-help] Mail server problem

[Anne Wilson]

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On Sunday 27 Feb 2005 14:51, Darran Rimron wrote:
>
> >   I tried telnet 198.162.0.30 110 on the
> > server as well as on the remote box, if that's what you mean, and got the
> > 'connection refused' message in both cases.
>
> In which case your pop3d isn't responding/listening.

My conclusion, also

> Check to see where
> you xinetd is logging and have a peep to see if there's any clues on
> *WHY* your inetd isn't answering requests.
>
That's the crux of the matter.  I have checked every log file I can find,
without finding any reference to the problem.  I can't believe that it is not
being logged, but I can't find it.

> Simplest case to test/play with (when new to xinetd) can be chargen as
> xinetd uses a "builtin" (they call it type=INTERNAL iirc) handler for
> this.- extra handy as you know that no-one on your LAN is going to be
> using this so if you break it beyond words (pretty hard!) no-one will now
> ;)
>
I don't know anything about chargen, but I'll see what I can find out, thanks.

> xinetd also supports a couple of handy command line switches, at start
> time (on debian they can be set in /etc/defaults/xinetd - on mandrake
> *shrug* investigate /etc/init.d/xinetd - or whatever your startup script
> is called) - ones worth looking at are -syslog and -d (for debug) - more
> details in man xinetd, of course.
>
I'll look into that, too, thanks.

Anne
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