Hello, Little problem My webserverSuSE7.2i386/Postfix/Cyrus-Imap on pentium/PC crashed I decided to install Postfix temporarily on a G3 Everything goes fine for the installation of SuSE 7.3 My /var/spool/mail mailboxes are filling up normally but ... Impossible to connect to the G3 server with kmail Impossible to make a POP connexion with the G3 server and to extract thus my mails from the mailbox. alain@lx93:~> telnet localhost 110 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused alain@lx93:~> But connexion to port 25 (SMTP) is possible. It is even possible to send a message. alain@lx93:~> telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 lx93.ihe.be ESMTP Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (PPC) quit 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. I thought there was a firewall problem because SuSE has now a tendency to install a firewall without warning: but ... lx93:/home/alain # ipchains -L ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel lx93:/home/alain # iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination lx93:/home/alain # rcpersonal-firewall status Checking for SuSE personal firewall: Not started. Thus no filters. # cat /etc/inetd.conf: normally the pop daemons are active. # echo stream tcp nowait root internal # echo dgram udp wait root internal # discard stream tcp nowait root internal # discard dgram udp wait root internal # daytime stream tcp nowait root internal # daytime dgram udp wait root internal # chargen stream tcp nowait root internal # chargen dgram udp wait root internal time stream tcp nowait root internal time dgram udp wait root internal # # These are standard services. # # ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd wu.ftpd -a # ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd proftpd ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd # # If you want telnetd not to "keep-alives" (e.g. if it runs over a ISDN # uplink), add "-n". See 'man telnetd' for more details. telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd # nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail -bs # printer stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/lpd -i # # Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. # The option "-h" permits ``.rhosts'' files for the superuser. Please look at # man-page of rlogind and rshd to see more configuration possibilities about # .rhosts files. # shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -L # shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -aL # # If you want rlogind not to "keep-alives" (e.g. if it runs over a ISDN # uplink), add "-n". See 'man rlogind' for more details. login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind # login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind -a # exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd # These entries are for the KDE version of talk. If you enable them, # you have to disable the version above. #talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde2/bin/ktalkd #ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde2/bin/ktalkd # # # Pop et al # pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop2d pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/popper -s # # Imapd - Interactive Mail Access Protocol server # Attention: This service is very insecure # imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd # # Comsat - has to do with mail. # # comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat # # The Internet UUCP service. # # uucp stream tcp nowait uucp /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -l # # Tftp service is provided primarily for booting. Most sites # run this only on machines acting as "boot servers." # # tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot # bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -c /tftpboot # # Finger, systat and netstat give out user information which may be # valuable to potential "system crackers." Many sites choose to disable # some or all of these services to improve security. # Try "telnet localhost systat" and "telnet localhost netstat" to see that # information yourself! # finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.fingerd -w # systat stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/ps -auwwx # netstat stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/netstat -a # # For man on the fly and ht://dig (full text search) # # http-rman stream tcp nowait.10000 nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/http-rman # # For XCept4 # # btx stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/xcept4/bin/ceptd -i/usr/lib/xcept4/etc/init.ceptd -u/usr/lib/xcept4/etc/users.ceptd -l/var/log/log.ceptd # # For rplay daemon # # Old versions of rplay: # rplay dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rplayd -b 8192 -c 60 -s 8192 # New Versions of rplay (>=3.3.0) # rplay dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rplayd -t 30 -c 60 -s 16384 -F0 --inetd # # vbox (Voice Box) # vboxd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/vboxd # # For midinetd # midinet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.midinetd # # swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool # swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat # # # amanda backup server with indexing capabilities # amandaidx stream tcp nowait root /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd amindexd # amidxtape stream tcp nowait root /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped amidxtaped # # amanda backup client # amanda dgram udp wait amanda /usr/lib/amanda/amandad amandad # # the rsync daemon # rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rsyncd --daemon # # # Mimer database # mimer stream tcp nowait root /opt/mimer/bin/mimtcp mimtcp -l # # CVS pserver (remote acces to your CVS repositories) # Please read the section on security and passwords in the CVS manual, # before you enable this. # cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/cvs -f --allow-root=/home/cvsroot pserver # # procstatd deamon (cluster software) # procstatd stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/procstatd -i 7885 # # End. I send my /etc/postfix/main.cf config file too. Everything worked fine with my old server. Thus what could be the problem considering that I had no problems with SuSE 7.2i386 Thanks Alain