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Opening POP Port

Submitted by Hal9000v8 on Sun, 11/09/2008 - 01:57.

I've got Exim4 running on my server. When I was running Debian on an older system it worked fine. Under Linux Mint on a newer and much faster computer it is not. It appears that port 110 is being blocked, even though it looks open in both IPtables and Firestarter. Any ideas?

Peter

 

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Oh sure, dissapear into the

Submitted by chad on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 20:36.

Oh sure, dissapear into the dark nights of nothingness and then come back here with an Exim4 question??

Good to see you on the boards. Are you sure the port is not being blocked on the router rather then on the machine itself?

Chad

Blockages

Submitted by Hal9000v8 on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 23:21.

Got to jump back in with something special. :)

 

I don't think it is the router. It is configured the same as for the old computer. NMAP on localhost can't find the port.

 

PeteTheGeek

# 25 years of messing about with computers #

You know, being that a port

Submitted by chad on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 00:16.

You know, being that a port scan does not reveal it open, it may be that it did not install properly?

Hi there, I think exim

Submitted by jdictionary on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 21:23.

Hi there,

I think exim listens on port 25 doesn't it?  I just now installed it as a test on Fedora 9 and shutdown my sendmail server, fired up exim and got a response:

$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 <my.server.name.here> ESMTP Exim 4.69 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:17:26 -0500

110 is typicall pop mail so I assume you would need a popmail server for that.  To see what ports you have listening, try

$ netstat --tcp -a

Rick

peter@linux-office:~$ telnet

Submitted by Hal9000v8 on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:57.

peter@linux-office:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 linux-office ESMTP Exim 4.67 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:24:11 -0330

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peter@linux-office:~$ netstat --tcp -a
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State     
tcp        0      0 *:nfs                   *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:swat                  *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:60069                 *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:53159                 *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 localhost:mysql         *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:netbios-ssn           *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:5900                  *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:13327                 *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:www                   *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:55221                 *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 localhost:ipp           *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:31416                 *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 localhost:smtp          *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:gdomap                *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:microsoft-ds          *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 192.168.123.105:39050   ip247.216-86-152.st:www ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.123.105:37517   api.02.05.facebook.:www ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.123.105:49811   192.168.123.10:ssh      ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.123.105:37516   api.02.05.facebook.:www ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.123.105:46947   www.04.01.ash1.face:www ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.123.105:56346   ip247.216-86-152.st:www ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      1 192.168.123.105:37799   bay0-mc3-f.bay0.ho:smtp SYN_SENT

Peter

PeteTheGeek

# 25 years of messing about with computers #

There was step-by-step

Submitted by Hal9000v8 on Sat, 11/29/2008 - 13:48.

There was step-by-step tutorial I followed the time I had it working, but I can't find the website now. I know I am missing something.

 

PeteTheGeek

# 25 years of messing about with computers #