I am having problems getting Qpopper to run, in red hat 7.3 using xinetd

Has anyone had any problems with this.

If I telent to the ip or host name i get connection refused, like the service is not running. I am running iptables, but I have the port open.

ANy suggestions.

Thanks

I am also having that same problem. Anyone else have any luck getting it to work?

Look at the following file

/etc/xinetd.d/telnet

Check the setting inside whether the disable option is turn on. If yes, turn it off.

I got to work, however pcleung's suggestion simply enables telnet, which has nothing to do with a solution. You juts have to create a file called pop3 in your /etc/xinetd.d/ directory, and place this in it:



service pop3
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/local/bin/popper (sometimes /usr/local/sbin/popper)
server_args = qpopper -s
port = 110
}




restart xinetd (kill -HUP xinetd processid) and then you should be able to connect. I couldn't kill xinetd using kill, so i ended up rebooting, but it works fine now. RH7.2