POP and IMAP are seperate daemons than Postfix. They need to be run seperately, that would explain why pop is not connecting.
Here's what happens when the mail enters the system, more or less: Postfix's SMTP server will look up the email address, and decide if a) it's going to accept it or not. If it accepts it, it will then send it according to the transport mechanism that corresponds to that email address. This is Peter was speaking of. If the transport mechanism is DBMail, and main.cf is configured for DBMail, then it will start up dbmail-smtp and send the mail to it via a pipe. Dbmail then stores the email in the database. That's all that postfix will ever do. IF you wish to retrieve mail via POP or IMAP, you must start the dbmail-pop3d or dbmail-imapd programs, that will then listen on the proper port for connections. to check with telnet if the pop3 server is running, you can telnet to the pop port: telnet hostname 110 This should answer with: Connected to hostname. Escape character is '^]'. +OK DBMAIL pop3 server ready to rock along with some other stuff. I hope that helps. -Micah On Monday 06 September 2004 09:21 am, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: > Hello List: > > I am trying to install Postfix, MySQL, dbMail on a freshly installed RH9 > box as follows: > > Postfix Server: mail.tibinternet.net > IP Address: 12.21.237.16 > > I installed Postfix (with MySQL) & tested it by sending an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is forwarded to my email in > /etc/aliases) & I did receive the message. Then I created a manual > message: > > telnet localhost 25 > > >MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >DATA > >. > >QUIT > > The message was forwarded to my email. I did more testing by sending > messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & they all were received. > > Then I installed dbMail & by following the installation in > "http://www.helgrim.com/dbmaildocs/installation.html";. I added a user > account: > > #dbmail-adduser a testmail testmail 0 25000000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now I am running into problems. First of all I can not make a connection to > pop.tibinternet.net server from another PC. The connection is refused > saying that either the IP address is wrong or server is not responding. I > can PING pop.tibinternet.net. I can also "telnet" server > pop.tibinternet.net. > > I have checked into the logs (/var/log/maillog) there is nothing there. > Postfix is running. > > One more interesting thing: I sent an email to a wrong address > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and it is logged into the log on the Postfix > server as a rejected message (no such email address. I have not received > the rejected message yet. > > I do have a firewall but both ports 25 & 110 are open. > > So PLEASE help. Why I can't connect to port 110 to retrieve messages? > > Thanks in advance. > > Kirti > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
