Pop3

[Mark Nienberg]

If you haven't figured it out already, POP3 is actually part of the
IMAP package, so be sure you installed the imap rpm.  On RedHat 7.3 the
latest is imap-2001a-10.

Imap and pop are generally run from xinetd, so you don't start them
from "/init.d/imap".  I don't even have that file on my system, which
makes me wonder about how you installed imap and pop3.

Check that you have files:

/etc/xinetd.d/imap
/etc/xinet.d/pop3

then make sure that inside those files "disable" is set to "no".

Restart xinetd with "service xinetd restart".

Now try it.

Mark

On Sunday, November 23, 2003, at 09:21  AM, Steve Hickel wrote:

> All,
>
> I just spent the morning trying to figure out how to get imap and pop3
> working on my RH 7.3 system. I didn't load them when I load the
> original os. I am getting tired of losing email when I mistakenly
> double-click the delete key in my usermin email client from XP IE. My
> mailscanner works great but I need a more robust client like mozilla
> mail or outlook or express, but need to get over this hump. Any
> thoughts?
>
> Steve
>
> ps. Here is the error I am getting:
>
> Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap start ..
>
>
> imap2: unrecognized service
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: flags: command not found
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: socket_type: command not found
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: wait: `=' is not a pid or valid job spec
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: wait: `no' is not a pid or valid job spec
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: user: command not found
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: server: command not found
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap: log_on_failure: command not found
> disable: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused
>