email and server

bartgymnast · 02-19-2003, 02:19 AM

I have the following question.

I got an Linux server (slackware 8.1) which has an IRC server - httpd server - and I just configured sendmail on it correctly so it would receive emails

I have my domain forwarded to my home ip
www.mydomain.com and all emails with ....@mydomain.com comes to the user that sendmail has.
I can read that mail using webmin.
what I need to do know is to make so, that people on the network can receive the mail in their mailbox, what program and setting do I need for that?

so I generally need a program where people can connect to, to get their mail.

Please help

born4linux · 02-19-2003, 02:57 AM

u need a pop3 or an imap server. are u sure that their mailsl are spooled in ur server? (/var/spool/mail/*).

for pop3, slack has the ipop3d tgz file. u need to install it, enable it in inetd and restart inetd.

then, ur client pcs can point their email software to have your slack box as the pop3 server.

hth.

bartgymnast · 02-19-2003, 03:43 PM

when I start the inetd and I try to get my messages from mozilla
it says connection refused

my firewall has port 110 open, also on the mail server BTW
what is wrong????

bartgymnast · 02-19-2003, 04:20 PM

it worked already, don't worry

bartgymnast · 02-20-2003, 04:49 AM

I had to install a new glibc version

so I did, now I can't connect to the server anymore with ssh
what is the problem, and what can I do to fix it?

the new glibc version was needed to install pop3d

acid_kewpie · 02-20-2003, 04:52 AM

look at your log files to see what the ssh server is complaining about. try /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure

bartgymnast · 02-20-2003, 05:07 AM

These are the parts were its giving errors
These things also apply for user root

Feb 19 23:36:43 server sshd[16301]: input_userauth_request: illegal user bart
Feb 19 23:36:43 server sshd[16301]: Failed none for illegal user bart from 192.168.0.2 port 40005 ssh2
Feb 19 23:36:43 server sshd[16301]: Failed keyboard-interactive for illegal user bart from 192.168.0.2 port 40005 ssh2
Feb 19 23:36:47 server sshd[16301]: Failed password for illegal user bart from 192.168.0.2 port 40005 ssh2
Feb 19 23:36:57 server last message repeated 2 times
Feb 19 23:36:57 server sshd[16301]: Connection closed by 192.168.0.2

so please help