Mail server problems

[Michael Sullivan]

I've got it fixed now.  Thanks for your help everyone...
-Michael Sullivan

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 18:41, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having a problem accessing the pop3 port on my server.  The server
> > on a computer named bullet at 192.168.1.4 .  The computer I am trying
> > to  access bullet from is named baby and my user account is michael. 
> > I've tried telnetting from baby to bullet on port 110 from baby, but it
> > says Connection refused.  Yet if I ssh over to bullet and telnet from
> > there, I can get port 110 no problem.  I used
> > redhat-config-securitylevel to make sure that bullet accepted telnet
> > requests, and it does.
> 
> Accepting telnet is not the same as accepting telnet to port 110.  This
> is accepting pop3 (not telnet).  The fact that you used telnet to get
> there is irrelevant.  You need to add port 110 to the list of 'trusted
> services'.
> 
> And you should definitely turn telnet back off.
> 
> It works when you ssh, because from then on, you're locally on the
> machine, and all local connections are allowed.
> 
> I don't use the security level tool, so I don't know how to do it with
> that.  If you know how to edit your iptables file
> (/etc/sysconfig/iptables) you probably need something like
> 
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT
> 
> HTH,