Topic: Mail problem - Cannot fetch mail from LAN but WAN works fine

[excalibur]

My system is SME Server 6.0.

I have this weird problem. My Pop3 accounts stopped working from LAN 3 weeks ago.

When I fetch my mail from work, from outside of LAN it works fine. In the last months up to this failure sending mails had turned slow and tedious.

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This is the output from  an 'end' command of the maillog:
Nov 30 22:05:39 indsigt1 spamc[2736]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:05:40 indsigt1 spamc[2736]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:05:41 indsigt1 spamc[2736]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:05:42 indsigt1 spamc[2736]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
Nov 30 22:05:44 indsigt1 spamc[2741]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:05:45 indsigt1 spamc[2741]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:05:46 indsigt1 spamc[2741]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:05:47 indsigt1 spamc[2741]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
Nov 30 22:10:18 indsigt1 spamc[2827]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:19 indsigt1 spamc[2827]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:20 indsigt1 spamc[2827]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:21 indsigt1 spamc[2827]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
Nov 30 22:10:23 indsigt1 spamc[2832]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:24 indsigt1 spamc[2832]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:25 indsigt1 spamc[2832]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:26 indsigt1 spamc[2832]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
Nov 30 22:10:26 indsigt1 spamc[2836]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:27 indsigt1 spamc[2836]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:28 indsigt1 spamc[2836]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:29 indsigt1 spamc[2836]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries
Nov 30 22:10:29 indsigt1 spamc[2841]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:30 indsigt1 spamc[2841]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:31 indsigt1 spamc[2841]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Nov 30 22:10:32 indsigt1 spamc[2841]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

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What might be going on on my server. I have restarted the server many times. With same result

[excalibur]

Can ping mail.[domain] from LAN alright

But fetching pop3 mail is not working from LAN.