POP3 Trouble

[Stefan Nitz]

Dear listeners,

Am Montag, 22. November 2004 23:28 schrieb Jim Miller:
> I've been happily using cyrus-imap 2.2.8 for some time now, but I've only
> had cause to use the IMAP/IMAPS service.  Recently one of my users tried to
> connect via POP3 to the server and was getting connection timeout errors.
> So I decided to test the connection.
>
> netstat shows the server listening on 110
>
> telnet localhost 110
> USER blah    		# no response from server
> PASS blah			# no response from the server
> STAT				# no response
> LIST				# no response
> QUIT				# no response
> ctrl-] to close the connection
>
> Here's the log of the connection
> Nov 22 16:06:27 mailbox master[19491]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Nov 22 16:06:27 mailbox pop3[19491]: executed
> Nov 22 16:06:27 mailbox pop3[19491]: accepted connection
>
> imapd.conf -- just the relevant parts
> -----------
> # Minimum time between POP mail fetches in minutes
> popminpoll: 1
>
> # Allow plaintext logins by default (SASL PLAIN)
> allowplaintext: yes
>
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> # Allow use of the POP3 APOP authentication command.
> # Note that this command requires that the plaintext passwords are
> # available in a SASL auxprop backend (eg. sasldb), and that the system
> # can provide enough entropy (eg. from /dev/urandom) to create a challenge
> # in the banner.
> #### I'm not sure I understand this option
> allowapop: yes
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>
>
> cyrus.conf  -- just the relevant parts
> ----------------
> pop3            cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0
>
>
> ./configure
> LDFLAGS=-lpthread --with-auth=unix --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/
> --w ith-bdb-libdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib/
> --with-bdb-incdir=/usr/local/B erkeleyDB.4.2/include/ --with-openssl
> --with-sasl=/usr/local/lib/sasl2/ --wi th-perl --enable-listext
Maybe you've to change some packetfilter settings.

Luck Stefan
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