I can see now that ipop3d is not running, It seems to start manually, and says it is ready for a brief time, then says it is closing because of inactivity.When I telnet locally to port 110, it says connection refused. hosts.allow, and hosts.deny are empty, except for some commented lines. In Linuxconf I have ipop2d and ipop3d, but it does not respond to any changes that I try to implement. I have another server that works perfect, which says ipop2d and ipop3d are "enabled on demand". I do not have a inetd.conf, rather xinetd.conf, which I have attached . It doesn't seem to have the info you said I should find. I am able to send mail from the server. Is there something else I need to enable for pop3d to start, or would a removal and new install of ipop3d make the proper conf changes? Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: <florin at iucha.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] no socket error problem -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: xinetd.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 274 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020128/52aadfe8/xinetd.obj