Topic: why is everyone ignoring me.

[avraham]

Help is needed with fetchmail. pop3 on the sme 6 is not working only imap.
Ptretty Please HELP

[RavenIV]

maybe because you have an ugly subject foryour thread?
or because you give very less details?
or your unfriendly posting? in germany you say "the sound make the musik".

cheers

[Anonymous]

thanks

[mbachmann]

give more details, as suggested. Maybe we simply don't know how to solve you problem.

[avraham]

give more details, as suggested. Maybe we simply don't know how to solve you problem.

When i setup fetchmail all the mail is received by the sme server, but i can only setup internal imap to retrieve the mail into outlokk. If i try setup pop3 on outlook or outlook express it comes up with an error. connection to serve 192.168.1.200 failed. it seems that the pop3 on local machines to the sme server is invalid. please help

[NickR]

What do you see if you do:

telnet <server IP> 110

You should see something like this:

+OK <31426.1088521585@localhost>

If so, your POP3 is working.

[avraham]

What do you see if you do:

telnet <server IP> 110

You should see something like this:

+OK <31426.1088521585@localhost>

If so, your POP3 is working.

i did a telnet 192.168.1.200 110 and i got a connect failed

[NickR]

OK, that's bad.

On the server console, what does:

/etc/rc.d/init/d/popd status

tell you?  If it's not up, try:


/etc/rc.d/init/d/popd start

[avraham]

OK, that's bad.

On the server console, what does:

/etc/rc.d/init/d/popd status

tell you?  If it's not up, try:


/etc/rc.d/init/d/popd start

i got to the directory and issued both commands but got the same reply
directory stack empty

[NickR]

Sorry, stupid typo!


Should be:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/popd status

[avraham]

Sorry, stupid typo!


Should be:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/popd status

[NickR]

OK, what does:

/sbin/e-smith/config show popd

give you?

[avraham]

OK, what does:

/sbin/e-smith/config show popd

give you?

[NickR]

Curious, that looks OK (apart from the fact that POP3 is public - you must have changed it).

Try this:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

followed by

netstat -a | grep pop

BTW, please don't put your replies in the Subject: line as it looks like you have not replied!

[avraham]

Curious, that looks OK (apart from the fact that POP3 is public - you must have changed it).

Try this:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

followed by

netstat -a | grep pop

BTW, please don't put your replies in the Subject: line as it looks like you have not replied!

i did this but had to do ctrl c to exit
now what. ps thanks for the help.
it looks as though telnet is disabled  as i did a config show and lokked at telnet as well

[NickR]

i did this but had to do ctrl c to exit
now what. ps thanks for the help.
it looks as though telnet is disabled  as i did a config show and lokked at telnet as well

Hmm, ctrl-c shouldn't be required.  Something else going on here I suspect.

Feel free to email - there's an email icon on my posts.

[NickR]

i did this but had to do ctrl c to exit
now what. ps thanks for the help.
it looks as though telnet is disabled  as i did a config show and lokked at telnet as well

Hmm, ctrl-c shouldn't be required.  Something else going on here I suspect.

Feel free to email - there's an email icon on my posts.

Just to tidy up this topic, the OP re-installed on new hardware & the problem was gone.  Motto: don't trust 6 year-old hardware to "just work"!