On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 18:01 -0700, Rob Brandt wrote:
I'm getting a SuSE 9.1 installation ready to be used as a mail server for a client.
I've done the complete 9.1 installation and update. I have postfix running, and it can send mail to my regular mail accounts. I'm trying to get pop & imap services running and am getting nowhere. [snip]
Well, it does all work because I've been using postfix +amavis +imap for mail for a long time now. The first gotcha is that SuSE's compile of imap requires you to generate and use ssl certificates on each client - passwords alone will not do. This is what /var/log/mail shows each time there is a log in:
Oct 2 07:06:36 rumbaba imapd[16558]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.100.47 Oct 2 07:06:38 rumbaba imapd[16558]: Login user=escoffier host=tiramisu.fruitloops.localcom [192.168.100.47]
Perhaps also worth checking that xinetd is set up to allow imaps (not just imap) and pop3, and that hosts.allow specifically allows them if hosts.deny has a paranoid setting like "all deny all". I do not know whether the pop3 stuff requires ssl as well, though I suspect it may well. Secure imap and pop will also require different ports open on any firewall. It's easy to overlook all this because setting up a mail server using SuSE Pro isn't much documented.
I agree, I can not find any help with setting up Pop-before-SMTP. It seems to work but It does not.....oh well I had problems with setting up pop/imap becuase I did not know that Suse compiles with the need of SSL certs even if you do not use them for pop3 Neal http://www.susenet.com