well the title sais it all really...

whenever i try to acsess a pop3 server or a sucure webpage from any borwser/emial client
i get a message allong teh lines of

teh server refused the conection:
conection refused or
couldnot acsess the network.

i know internet is working. i know that teh servers i am trying to acsess are up... i can even ping them!

i have tried in: thinderbird and eveloution for pop3 servers

and firefox and kopete for https

i am starting to beloe tehre is a module eirtehrt not installed or not turned on in OPENsuse
if so coudl somone tell me what i am missing and where to get it form/how to turn it on.


many thanks
Dan

You may need to modify your firewall configuration or disable it. To enable HTTPS you need to allow traffic on port 443. To enable POP3 you need to enable 110.

The firwall configurator can be found in SuSE by opening the YaST control panel, go to security, and then you will see a button for the firewall.

I tried both allowing those ports and turning the firewall off altogether. but i still get the same error messages. it seems form the error messages that the computer is managing to try to connect to these services and is being refused
this is the message i get when i try to contact my college webmail:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y52...shot-Alert.png

could this problem be caused by something such as SSL not being installed or turned off?

hmm i tried mandrake linux on my experimental machine and got exactly the same error messages...
iu then installed slack 10.2 on it (that machiene goes through haveing a new distro almost every week!)
and tehre has been no problem so far...
if i cant fix this one mabie i shoudl put slack oin it!

well i put slack on this box and it was a calamaty! the install went fien but X wouldent work, iot jsut crashed it!
have reisnatlled SuSe 10 with Kde this time instead of Gnome and lo and behold all teh problems have instantly sorted themselves out!

it seems taht KDE works!
if anyone had had teh same trouble or managed to fis this with Gnome can they let me know... (i will stay subscribed to this thread)

you probably aren't running a pop service

type

netstat -tna

and see if there is something listening on port 110
most likely there isn't and you need to install a pop service
like qpopper