Re: how to tell if pop3 or imap services are running?

[Bongrip <redhat echeeba com>]

Jay Moore wrote:
> I've been able to successfully get postfix running.  I can send and 
> receive mail to accounts on a RH8 box.  I know this because at a shell 
> prompt i use the
> 'mail' command and can see that mail has been received.  When i've sent 
> mail to outside account, it gets there ( i think because the mozilla 
> client is configured to use my ISP's SMTP).  However, when i try and use 
> a pop3 client (mozilla in this case) to retrieve my mail, i get server 
> timeouts etc.  I have a Netgear firewall appliance that has port 110 
> open, however, I am unsure if the box itself has this port open.  I'm 
> slowly still figuring this stuff out, so any direction at all would be 
> helpful.
> thanks
> jay

Use 'netstat -nlp' to view listenning sockets.

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