do you have a firewall blocking port 25?
anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "technomage" <
technomage-hawke@cox.net>
To: <
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Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:38 AM
Subject: additional problem [was Re: setting up a real pop server at home]
> ok.
> I'm not sure what I did, but I managed to do it.
> postfix is working fine for internal mail, but now it presents "connection
> refused" to any attempt to send mail to it from the outside world. I've
> checked the config files 4 times and I can't seem to find the problem.
>
> a telnet to the proper port from a remote machine yields "connection
refused"
> and a telnet from inside (to localhost) gives me a banner. what am I
missing
> here?
>
> Technomage
>
> On Wednesday 26 June 2002 04:37 am, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 03:25, technomage wrote:
> > > ok,
> > > I've been searching some of the online docs and I'm not really close
to a
> > > solution here. I'd like to setup and run a home based pop3 server to
> > > operate in concert with my smtp server (which is already working). so
> > > far, the mandrake website seems of little help.
> > >
> > > anyone happen to have a solution to this?
> > > it would make my life easier if I could check my e-mail from inside
the
> > > lan on a box instead of logging into the gateway box, then using pine
to
> > > check my mail (its a hassle).
> >
> > ----
> > On redhat, it is the imap daemon (uw-imap) that provides pop2, pop3,
> > pop3s, imap & imaps services. Install the imap package and configure the
> > above via xinetd and your firewall accordingly. Mandrake may have used
> > something other than uw-imap.
> >
> > Craig
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