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I am trying to set up an email server. I have installed:
Slackware 10 and Courier-IMAP 3.08
I am using Courier to be both POP and SMTP server.
I ran nmap at port 25 was listening for SMTP, port 110 was listening for pop3 and port 143 was listeing for IMAP.
I then setup Kmail just to see if i could send and receive mail. THe sending part worked fine, but the incoming mail is not getting there.
When I try to check the mail, it asks for the password of the user and after typing it in, it fails. I have opened the ports on the router for both SMTP and POP3 and still nothing.
I know the user exists. I even tried to add a user through KUser and it still doesn't work.
Must be something silly that I'm missing. Please help...I think I'm about to loose it
can you telnet to port 110 on the mail server? if not, the pop3 daemon won't be listening. i wouldn't be suprised if the default courier imap config was to only accept imap.. but that should be easily changes if that is the case.
Since I don't have telnet on the linux box, I am telneting through another computer on the network.
I am using Putty.
I just log into the comptuer under my normal user and then type : telnet servername 110 right?
I will test it again tomorrow as work is over for day I think the last time I logged in that way, it would not accept my password....
Since the nmap was showing that pop3 was on port 110, does that not mean that it is listening to that port? It says that it is when I run the netstat -vat
I can now telnet into all the correct ports (SMTP, IMAP and POP) from my home and from my Windoze box that is on the same network.
I forgot about actually setting up the userdb....stupid me
Now...I can send mail to the email server and send email to everyone else (Yahoo account, etc...) however, I can not receive emails from outside of the server.
Make sense? So if you were to send me an email it would fail, if I sent an email from the server to the server, it would be fine.
Any ideas what I can check? The ports are open on the router....
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