Re: Pop Server not working

[Chuck Mead <chuck moongroup com>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sanjay Gupta spewed into the bitstream:

> 
> hi all,
> 
> we have installed RedHat 6.0 on our new server. Everything seems to be
> working f
> ine ie. telnet , ftp ,http 
> but when we try to get our mails using netscape mail client it is not able
> to co
> nnect to the server 
> and get the users mails but the mails do exist on
> /var/spool/mail{user-account-n
> ame}
> 
> do i need to set something for doing this.

Yes there have been several threads on it recently and it's in the archives...
search here:

http://www.moongroup.com/redhat.phtml

search for the word imap.

> it also seems that all mails sent from netscape to the outside world are
> also no
> t going to the outside world but they are going if we send them thru pine.

Send mail from netscape and then capture the output of /var/log/maillog by doing
"tail /var/log/maillog" after sending. Send the output of that here and you'll
get some help... otherwise we'd be guessing!


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