Alan Davies wrote:
I've decided to branch out and extend our use of LINUX by using it as a mail server>
postfix seems to be istalled and i"ve set up the run level to start smtpd and smtp - and used yast to start imap and pop3.
However, I cannot get our PC clients to connect to either pop3 or imap - despite trying various combinations of secure/not seure ssh or whatever.
Don't think ssh is the tool to use. Telnet is OK, but you'll need to specify the correct port - the standard 23 won't work.
Clearly this is a case of that metaphysics rule that its always harder the first time you try it and once you can convince yourself that you have made the right settings it WILL work. The trouble is that I don't have that confidence.
When I do ps -A (as root) I can see smtp things but no reference to imap or pop - whch rather bothers me.
No, that's normal. The likes of pop and imap are started by the xinetd daemon, whenever an incoming connection is received. You should, however see a "listener" on port 110 (pop) and 143 (imap). Check with netstat -an Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN With regard to postfix, it's most likely listening only on 127.0.0.1, so the rest of the network can't get to it. I'm a qmail fiend, so I can't help you on that front. -- jez Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . mailto:jez@jezndi.org http://www.jezndi.org