Re: pop server

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:29:50 -0700 (PDT)
Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote:

> on kimber...
>    make sure in.pop3  or equivalent is listed in /etc/hosts.allow
> 	ipop3:       localhost, 192.168.xx.0/255.255.255.0
> 
> 	( you should see similar entries for wuftpd, in.telnetd 
> 	( if the mising ipop3 is the problem
> 
>    make sure pop3 or equivalent is listed in /etc/inetd.conf or
>    /etc/xinetd.conf/ipop3
> 	# disable = yes
> 	disable = no

Thanks.  That's solved it.  disable = no was missing, but didn't solve the
problem on it's own. Once hosts.allow was edited it worked.  So it was
either the latter or both that was the problem.

The only puzzle is that I could ftp without any entry in hosts.allow -
shouldn't that have required permission too?

Much appreciated.

- Richard.