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RE: [SLUG] fetchmail POP3 problem


On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote:

> Aha!!!! Damn firewall rules...
Firewalls are good ;-)

> OK. I got as far as opening up my INPUT and OUPUT rules to default as
> "ACCEPT" and it's now working but I don't know what's it trying to connect
> to or on..??
Try using iplog - this logs icmp, tcp and icmp packets.

> It's open for loop back (127.0.0.1) and inbound on port 25 so what else is
> missing..?
POP is on port 110.  I suspect you need to modify some of the rules...

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