Hello list currently i have a nice setup of debian potatoe and trying to add exim as a mail server. I want to check my mail with outlook express/pegasus/whatever via the pop3 port from the windows boxes
Initially i had this setup under Red hat and sendmail (before i saw the light and was converted) Under redhat inetd.conf are the lines: smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/sendmail etc etc pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd/pop3d Under debian i have : smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs i added pop3 stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d thinking along the lines of the redhat box, ......but she no work :( The port is now open (i can telnet to it ) but exim doesnt reply. my question is ... how do i activate the pop3 port so i can check my email like i used to do on the redhat box? I know of Qpopper but i (mistakenly?) dont think i need it. anyway if someone could explain to me why debian doesnt have this port in the inetd.conf file (there must be a valid reason) and why i should or should not use Qpopper or like product, because clearly i don't understand the correlation between exim, pop3 and qpopper and i would like to! :-) thanks Matt
