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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:41:36 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        michaela <michaela@maa-net.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Qpopper v4.0.8
Message-ID:  <43FCBE70.10301@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20060222183535.M79239@maa-net.net>
References:  <20060222183535.M79239@maa-net.net>

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michaela wrote:

>I was running an older version of Qpopper on my mailserver and had NO 
>problems whatsoever.  Everything was going great.  However, I just recently 
>upgraded to Qpopper v4.0.8 and now all of a sudden I can't access my mail 
>via POP3.  
>
>I'm running Qpopper via INETd and my /etc/inetd.conf file looks like this....
>
>pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/qpopper qpopper -
>s -T 600
>
>
>However, when I try telnetting to localhost 110, I get the 
>dreaded, "CONNECTION CLOSED BY FOREIGN HOST" message.  NETSTAT shows that 
>Qpopper is listening on Port 110/TCP so I don't know what's wrong.  
>My /etc/hosts.allow file is set to allow ALL so that shouldn't be an issue.
>
>I even executed KILLALL -HUP inetd numerous times and still no go.
>
>I've poured through the Qpopper FAQs and documentation to see if I'm doing 
>anything wrong, or missing something, but I just can't seem to pinpoint it.  
>
>Any suggestions or details as to what I might be missing???
>
>Any help is much appreciated.  
>  
>

qpopper writes to syslog AFAIK ... so what's in /var/log/messages?

Is there a firewall on the machine?

Kevin Kinsey

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