problem with mail server
 

hi friends

we have a windows network consisting of win95 and 98
I am using redhat 6.0 as masqurading server.
i had also using it as a internal mail server ,it is working fine earlier, recently I had problem with it
The internal users are able to send the mails
using outlook express but they are unable to receive mails.
when i checked the message que it is haing lot of messages

how to trouble shoot the problem

check inetd service.
 

Hi ,

well the first thing to do is check if the pop service is running ?
check the /etc/inetd.conf file and uncomment the pop or imap field ( u can have both or either ... depending on ur preference). You will need to restart the inetd service after u make changes in the file for effect to take place.

I assume u dont have a firewall in place if so then maybe u should check the firewall rules as well.

regards,
xanthium.

Re: problem with mail server
 

hai Xanthium ,

Thanks for ur sugesstion.

i alleady checked the option and pop3 service is running.
As i had told i had configured masqurading on it. i had configured Ipfirewall rules but this is done quite long back and is working fine .But this problem happened very recently.last change i had made in the firewall configuration is i had given an entry for for host to enable him to onnect to internet.

One more important thing is when users are receiving messages sent from linuxbox, but they are not receiving messages sent form windows machines.

please help me if u can

regards

praveen


:newbie:

add the ips of the windows machines to /etc/mail/access and restart sendmail

I had tried it but no improvemnt

the is I had a problem in receiving not sending.

i will be greatful for that.

I want to know some thing about fetchmail and procmail
are they any useful for resolving my problem

I will be happy to know about it.


regards

praveen