Uninstalling exim (when turning it off is not enough)

[neidorff]

On 7/27/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> neidorff wrote:
> >>>I'm sorry to give a flaky answer, but whatever pop server is installed
> >>>with qmailrocks.  Courier does imap in this setup, I think it also
> >>>does pop.  I did a manual login to the pop server
> >>>(#telnet localhost 110)
> >>>and was able to successfully log into my account and list my mail.  I
> >>>assume that means that the pop server is working properly?
> >>
> >>It's at least working for localhost. It might not be listening on other
> >>interfaces.
> >>
> >>What's the output of:
> >># netstat -lpn | grep 110
> >
> >
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110                 0.0.0.0:*
> >      LISTEN      10652/tcpserver
> >
> > This tcpserver is the one that came with qmail (the ucspi-tcp-0.88
> > package).  Its the only one on the system.
> 
> The netstat output indicates that it's listening on all interfaces, not
> just localhost, so it should be usable from anywhere as long as you
> don't have a /etc/hosts.deny entry or firewall rule that is blocking
> access from anywhere else.
> 
> Is your kmail configured to use the pop server on localhost?
> 

Yes, kmail is configured to use the pop server on localhost.  I
thought about the firewall rule and turned it off, but got the same
error.  The file /etc/hosts.deny is empty (just a few lines of
comments).

Thanks for any help,

Mark