pop3 problems

[David Southwell]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:29:13 Derek Ragona wrote:
> At 11:20 AM 4/4/2007, David Southwell wrote:
> >On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:57:51 David Southwell wrote:
> > > I am trying to get pop3 working on freebsd 6.1 but am having no
> > > success.
> > >
> > > mail ports installed:
> > > [root at dns1 /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw]# pkg_info |grep mail
> > > cclient-2004g,1     Mark Crispin's C-client mail access routines
> > > imap-uw-2004g_1,1   University of Washington IMAP4rev1/POP2/POP3 mail
> > > servers maildrop-2.0.2      Mail delivery agent (MDA) with filtering
> > > abilities postfix-2.3.8,1     A secure alternative to widely-used
> > > Sendmail [root at dns1 /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw]#
> > >
> > >
> > > In inetd I have:
> > > pop2    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/ipop2d  
> > > ipop2d pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root   
> > > /usr/local/libexec/ipop3d   ipop3d imap4   stream  tcp     nowait  root
> > >    /usr/local/libexec/imapd    imapd When connections are attempted
> > > there is no response from the server.
> >
> >correction the above line should read:
> >When connections are attempted there is response from the server!!
> >
> > > When an attempt is made to connect to pop3 the server is found,
> > > connection is made but there is a problem with password verification.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me identify the problem. I have not been able to find a
> > > check list to help.
> > >
> > > How do I get logging information for pop3?
> > >
> > > Thanks david
> > >
> > >

>
> Try telneting to that port while logged into that server.
>
>          -Derek\

Here is my response:

# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 localhost 2004.89 server ready

david