On 06/20/03 9:40 AM -0400, Richard Wells wrote: > Hello list, > > Bill Acker had configured pop3 to work on my Red Hat system. I can still > telnet to port 110 from inside and do mail commands, but I cannot get to > it from outside at all. Did my ISP do something or do I need to change > something or maybe even restart pop3? All ideas/command examples are > welcome. I would really like to be able to hit pop3 remotely again. It sounds like you have a firewall up. Redhat installs a basic one by default iirc. You can try 'iptables -L" to see if a rule that blocks port 110 exists. You will have to get an answer from a rh user about the redhat way to configure or disable the firewall. -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD