I am kinda new to Linux. I am running Mandrake 7.1... I have my web server and also sendmail running. Using Pine at the console I able send and recieve email to and from my domain. When I do a netstat -a --inet, there is nothing listening on port 110. If try to start ipop3d, I get '+OK POP3 bigbird v7.64 server ready'. I open another console and do a netstat -a --inet and there is still nothing listening on port 110. This is very confusuing and I cant seem to find any good docs on configuring sendmail with POP3. I want to be able to check the mail on my linux box from anywhere without ssh'ing in. I want to use outlook or outlook express. I also want to get webmail up and running which requires POP3. I cant seem to get there. Any help will appreciated...

Thanks All

configure your in.pop3d to run from inetd. Make sure that pop3 is in the /etc/services file. Then edit your /etc/inetd.conf file and uncomment the pop3 line, if it's commented. Mine looks somethink like this:

pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d

Save the file, then send the inetd process a HUP signal:

kill -HUP <pid of inetd>

This will tell inetd to reread the configuration file. Next time a request comes into 110 ie. Outlook, it will spawn a in.pop3d process to send your mail to Outlook. Make sure you have your username and password setup correctly. And if you are running a firewall make sure the port is open.

I also run a web mail client. The client I have does not require a POP3 process. It reads my mail files directly.

Also, sendmail does not have to be configured to coexist with POP. They are entirly seperate.

Good Luck

Gary