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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!dcs54.dcs-chico.com!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP......cannot log into server with POP mail Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:50:53 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <fred-3008962350540001@dcs54.dcs-chico.com> References: <5079uo$ksq@news.sas.ab.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs54.dcs-chico.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <5079uo$ksq@news.sas.ab.ca>, shaffinb@matrikon.ab.ca wrote: >HI, > >Can anyone help me...???? > >I have created various accounts on my server and am trying >to use POP mail to retrieve messages ( say Eudora ). > >But I get an error message ....... " Connection refused " >can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong. > >I am on a network, have assigned a DNS name in my hosts file. > >SHAFFIN. >shaffinb@matrikon.ab.ca 1. Make sure you have installed popper (in the ports). 2. Make sure there is an entry for pop in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party