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Mike Holloway
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      06-14-2004, 02:55 PM
I'm trying to set up a pop server for limited use on my home network.
I've installed Qpopper as standalone, and started it with the server's
local network address (popper 196.143.0.1). Outlook on a machine on
the local network can't find the server. Do I need to do something to
make a port available?

Deep background:
The primary goal is to provide a buggy specialized Windows app with a
pop server it can get mail from. It was written to use the pop server
address as the outgoing mail email domain (ie.
@pop-server.myservice.com) which doesn't work for my service's SMTP
server. I want to give it a server that I can name anything I want.

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Mike Holloway
 
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Pascal Bourguignon
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      06-14-2004, 03:48 PM

(E-Mail Removed) (Mike Holloway) writes:

> I'm trying to set up a pop server for limited use on my home network.
> I've installed Qpopper as standalone, and started it with the server's
> local network address (popper 196.143.0.1). Outlook on a machine on
> the local network can't find the server. Do I need to do something to
> make a port available?


Check that your machine on the local network can find the server with ping:
ms-windows> ping 196.143.0.1


You can use: sudo netstat -tnpl
to see what program listen to what port. For example in my case,
I have inetd in front of qpopper:

# netstat -tnpl |grep :110
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2182/inetd


You can use telnet to debug:
% telnet 196.143.0.1 110
Trying 196.143.0.1
Connected to 196.143.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK ready <23904.1087227619@196.143.0.1>
....



> Deep background:
> The primary goal is to provide a buggy specialized Windows app with a
> pop server it can get mail from. It was written to use the pop server
> address as the outgoing mail email domain (ie.
> @pop-server.myservice.com) which doesn't work for my service's SMTP
> server. I want to give it a server that I can name anything I want.


This is another question: you have to set up a DNS server for this
pop-server.myservice.com domain, and have your MS-Windows computer
refer this DNS server.


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