Re: POP3

Tony Nugent (Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au)
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:24:25 +1000


On Wed Sep 23 1998, d-pedley@dnsl.com wrote:

> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

My two pet hates... text/html and q-p for ordinary email. Totally
unnecessary, extremely ugly, a waste of bandwidth, and a PITA to deal with.
Please don't use it... turn it off in your mailer.

Now, with that off my chest...

> I have now installed Sendmail and altered the config file and used M4, =
> seems to use the updates but I now cannot connect via POP3, I have =
> checked that POP is in the Sendmail.mc file and compiled from that, and =
> its in the "inetd.conf" file but I cannot connect.
>
> Not even telnet works on port 110. Anybody have any ideas?

Sendmail is *not* a pop server. I hope you haven't got inetd configured to
call it for answering port 110 requests! There are other daemons that are
designed to do that.

In my own /etc/inetd and /etc/services files...

% grep -i pop /etc/inetd.conf /etc/services
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop-2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.pop2d
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
/etc/inetd.conf:#pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.pop3d
/etc/services:pop-2 109/tcp # PostOffice V.2
/etc/services:pop-3 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3
/etc/services:pop 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3
/etc/services:kpop 1109/tcp # Pop with Kerberos

I have pop turned off (commented out) in my /etc/inetd.conf file as I'm not
using this box as a pop server. But you get the idea.

> Does anybody know where I can find out common port number assignments. =

In your /etc/services file.

> Is it defined in an RFC somewhere?

Yes. I forget which one. Oh hang on... (a quick grep later) RFC 1700

See http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1700.txt

Cheers
Tony
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