Re: pop server

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:05:48 -0700
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> wrote:


> If the machine running the pop3 server is properly configured (no TCP 
> wrappers, no firewall, etc) from some other machine you should be able
> to:
> 
> telnet machine pop3 (whatever the machine's name is).  If this fails but
> you can do it from the machine running the pop server you have a) a
> network issue b) an over secure problem (meaning something is protecting
> the pop server and shouldn't be).

Well, I tried to pre-empt that sort of problem by opening what I thought
were the right ports in my firewall (110 tcp/udp).

I did the same for ftp, and that works OK.

What else might it be?

- Richard.