Re: can't connect to pop3 server - MTA issues (postfix)

Thanks much, gentlemen. After a quick make clean install I can now retrieve
my email. I appreciate the dovecot recommendation. It's easy and no plain
text passwords. I wanted granularity with the switch to FreeBSD - I'm
realizing just how granular! :)

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Regards,

Jerry M. Gartner
"Jerry M. Gartner" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:N69rf.37086$dO2.6484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Greetings:
>
> My Linux box died earlier this week so I upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0 I'm
> using postfix (from ports/mail/postfix-current) as my mta. The program is
> running with no errors, although, I've sent emails from elsewhere but I
> don't see them in the logs. We access the mail server via pop3 locally.
> The old mail server was running sendmail and we could connect and get our
> mail no problem. With the new server, we can't get to the mail server -
> the old "...unable to connect to your incoming (pop3) e-mail server"
> error. I had initially configured sendmail on the FreeBSD box and had the
> same issue. I switched to postfix for various reasons but the problem
> persists. I can telnet to port 25 but not to 110. nmap rightly indicates
> that 25 is in fact open and that 110 is closed. I can ssh to the machine
> too with no problem. I'm a bit of a noob to FreeBSD so I assume that I'm
> missing something quite simple. Advice is much appreciated.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry M. Gartner
>


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