Pop3 Stopped Working On Red Hat 8 System

[Thomas Stivers]

On 06/20/03  9:40 AM -0400, Richard Wells wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Bill Acker had configured pop3 to work on my Red Hat system. I can still 
> telnet to port 110 from inside and do mail commands, but I cannot get to 
> it from outside at all. Did my ISP do something or do I need to change 
> something or maybe even restart pop3? All ideas/command examples are 
> welcome. I would really like to be able to hit pop3 remotely again.

It sounds like you have a firewall up. Redhat installs a basic one by
default iirc. You can try 'iptables -L" to see if a rule that blocks
port 110 exists. You will have to get an answer from a rh user about the redhat way to configure or disable the firewall.

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