ipop3

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 13:54 -0400, Dan Doucette wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:01 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: ipop3
> > 
> > On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:28 -0400, Dan Doucette wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We just completed a network upgrade and appears that most of the clients
> > at
> > > these sites can not check e-mail after the upgrade has been done. Some
> > can
> > > some can't, it's a mixture of OE and regular Outlook. After the server
> > is
> > > rebooted that seems to correct the problem. The error message I'm seeing
> > is;
> > >
> > > : Command stream end of file while reading line user=dstevens
> > > host=[192.168.7.102]
> > >
> > > The server is running RedHat 9 with the default pop server ipop3d
> > >
> > > Has anyone run into this issue?
> > 
> > Did you check your firewall settings?  You'll have to make sure that
> > TCP port 110 is open.  For IMAP, use TCP port 143.
> 
> Yes, it is open. I can telnet from the problem machines to port 110 without
> an issue. I also tried a different client, thunderbird.

Did thunderbird work correctly?  If so, then you should verify that the
Outlook clients are indeed running POP3 and that they're not using any
special authentication mechanisms.  You may also need to change the
timeout in Outlook.

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