I can't get POP3 to work. I can send mail out, but I can't receive it to Thunderbird, Outlook, or OE.
Here are my notes on my own feeble efforts to find the cause of the problem. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, so please point me in the right direction.
Mozilla Thunderbird gets the following message:
Sendign of password did not succeed. Mail server 192.168.2.1 responded: unable to write pipe
("Sendign" not my typo)
Outlook gets the following message:
The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'myusername pop3', Server: '192.168.2.1',
Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
I have tried port 110, 112, 995 with and without SSL.
# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <4295.1127071933@myservername.mydomain.net>
user myusername
+OK
pass mypassword
-ERR unable to write pipe
Connection closed by foreign host.
#svstat /service/qmail*
/service/qmail: up (pid 3569) 5705 seconds, normally down
#svstat /service/qmail*/log
/service/qmail/log: up (pid 1537) 7096 seconds
tai64nlocal < /var/log/qmail/current
displays lots of log file info, such as:
2005-09-18 11:59:47.782218500 new msg 2116988
2005-09-18 11:59:47.782221500 info msg 2116988: bytes 698 from <'myemail@mydomain.net> qp
4135 uid 400
2005-09-18 11:59:47.788049500 starting delivery 12: msg 2116988 to local
pcmh@bastion.shiras.net
2005-09-18 11:59:47.788051500 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20
2005-09-18 11:59:47.788052500 delivery 11: success: forward:_qp_4135/did_0+0+1/
2005-09-18 11:59:47.788053500 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
2005-09-18 11:59:47.788054500 end msg 2116989
2005-09-18 11:59:47.796593500 delivery 12: success: did_1+0+1/
2005-09-18 11:59:47.796596500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
2005-09-18 11:59:47.796597500 end msg 2116988
#ls -l /usr/bin/checkpassword
-rwx------ 1 root root 11136 Feb 16 2005 /usr/bin/checkpassword
#ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:8F:04:90:C2
inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19934 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20993 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2046873 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:12201423 (11.6 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8c00
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:79:E4:4A
inet addr:216.231.34.38 Bcast:216.231.34.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:9844 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:19658
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9966314 (9.5 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:530471 (518.0 KiB) TX bytes:530471 (518.0 KiB)
#/usr/sbin/lsof -i TCP:110
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
tcpsvd 2598 root 4u IPv4 6691 TCP *:pop3 (LISTEN)