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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!sunqbc.risq.net!newbridge.com!usenet From: BL <binhlam@Newbridge.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: POP3? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:58:22 -0400 Organization: Newbridge Networks Corporation Lines: 37 Message-ID: <326B9D9E.25B51B95@Newbridge.com> References: <53qu6t$3ug@voyager.iii.org.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: flood.ca.newbridge.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Fengchou Li wrote: > > I configured my sendmail.cf that I can send mail from my own FreeBSD > mechine. I can receive my mail sent from outside on the same FreeBSD > mechine by using telnet. Then I uncomment the pop3 line in the > /etc/inetd.conf in hope that I can receive mails by using another PC > running Win95 in another office. The POP3 line looked like this way: > > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper > popper > > (This line is too long that it may wrap on your screen.) > > The Win95 mechine keeps telling me that I cannot login this mail > server. Where did I go wrong? Check /etc/services file to see whether port 110 for pop3 is defined. Check whether /usr/local/libexec/popper exist. Try: telnet localhost 110 <you should see POP3 banner here...> user <your userid> pass <your passwd> <--- your password will be displayed so caution... <if everything is entered correctly, POP3 will tell you whether you have mail waiting or not....> quit <--- terminate the telnet session Hope this help, -- -----|||--------------------------------+------------------------------- ||| ||| Binh Lam | e-mail: binhlam@newbridge.com |||\||| Newbridge Networks Corp. | phone : +1 613 591-3600 |||\\|| 600 March Road, P.O. Box 13600 | fax : +1 613 591-3680 |||\\\| Kanata, Ont. Canada K2K 2E6 | -|||------------------------------------+-------------------------------