[plug] Postfix

[Leon Brooks]

Robert Andrews wrote:
> However I have not installed a specialised pop-3 server you said that
> postfix has its own pop-3 server

> #pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
> pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
> imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd

You shouldn't need imap on (but it also shouldn't interfere with what you're
doing here), but oddly enough it seems that you do need imap installed, since
that's the RPM (on my system, at least) which supplies the ipop3d referenced
above. Try this to be sure:

    rpm -q --file $(which ipop3d)

Make sure you've (re)started inetd since you changed the config file. Try this:

    killall -HUP inetd

If this says "no process killed" then inetd isn't running at all. On a
RedHattish system start it with this if it needs starting:

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start

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