pop3 trace

[cotthemh]

hello,

My server has 2 ports one behind a firewall and another on the local network, my pop3 on the local network works the one behind the firewall doesn't. The firewall has the proper ports opened, is there a simple way to check the packets get to the server ?

Thanks,

Herwig

[martinfst]

netstat -tap will show on which IP addresses programs are listening. you should see either 0.0.0.0 or *
$ netstat -tap | grep pop
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp 0 0 hosted.by.obfuscated:pop3s *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN -

[cotthemh]

the most simple way to do this is actually use telnet domain 110, then use the command user <username>
then pass <password>
you should get authenticated if all works wel,

anyhow the firewall config was wrong a typo in the forwarding rule, this procudure was really helpfull,

cheers,

Herwig