Email (pop, smtp, imap) is blocked

[jpleas]

I recently set up MandrakeSecurity 7.2, running kernel 2.2.19-5mdksecure on a Pentium 200. It runs Squid and barrierfirewall (I think). The HTTP service is running well and I figured out how to allow access to webmail over port 81. However, for the life of me, I cannot get any email services to work!

Anything 'http' related is no problem...however, no mail services (& no pinging) from computers on local network. I haven't yet tried FTP services. I have tried disabling the firewall and/or the proxy service, but have made no advances.

I'm a newbie and linux and would GREATLY appreciate help!

[gman420]

I run RH 7.3. All my services such as telnet, ftp, imap, pop3 were all disabled during installation.

#cd /etc/xinetd.d/

Here are the files located in my directory.

chargen echo imaps ktalk rlogin services time-udp
chargen-udp echo-udp ipop2 ntalk rsh talk wu-ftpd
daytime finger ipop3 pop3s rsync telnet
daytime-udp imap kotalk rexec servers time

edit all the corresponding files to say disable = no
If you don't have this directory then locate the files via

example - #locate ipop3

After all the files are editted you must restart the xinetd daemon

example - #service xinetd restart

If this does not work type netstat -nl to see if the box is listening to those ports.

Good Luck

:cool:

[jpleas]

Thanks for the reply, gman420!
I went to /etc/xinetd.d/ and looked for the files you said. I only had:
chargen chargen-udp daytime daytime-udp echo echo-udp
time time-udp
I ran a search for a number of the other files that you listed and found none of them!
Netstat also shows that that I'm not listening to any of the ports I want.

Any other suggestions??

PS--I confirmed that FTP doesn't work...at least I couldn't get it to with any of the proxy options that SmartFTP offers.