kmail- cannot start process pop3

From: neidorff (neidorff_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/30/05

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    Hi All,

    Well, I'm really stuck and need help. I'm grasping at straws to
    figure out what caused the problem I am having. Here is the problem
    (I have posted this in other threads. I'm still trying to find a
    solution) Running FC3, KDE 3.3.1-2 and kmail 1.7.1. I'm using qmail
    (from qmailrocks.org) to recieve mail for all users on my network.
    Everything has been working great up to a couple of days ago. Then,
    mail stopped coming in or going out. In checking the logs, I found
    that yum had installed exim and that messed everything up. So I
    stopped exim and now mail is coming in and going out as normal.

    I read my mail on the same computer that the mail server runs on.
    When I start kmail, it posts an error dialog: "Cannot start process
    pop3" and then does not bring in my mail. I used netstat to verify
    that tcpserver (from qmailrocks) is listening on port 110. I can
    "telnet localhost 110", log in and list my mail, so I know that the
    pop server is alive and working (plus other users can get their mail).
     I ruled out my firewall (turned it off, briefly and got the same
    error message. I also ruled out hosts.deny and hosts.allow, since
    they are empty.

    I'm guessing that something that yum installed/updated on my system
    has caused my problem, but I don't know. Its only a guess. Here is
    what yum installed when the problem began (when this problem occurred,
    I turned the automatic updating by yum off. I do learn from my
    errors)

    Jul 22 04:39:30 Installed: exim.i386 4.43-1.FC3.1
    Jul 22 04:39:32 Updated: mozilla-nss.i386 37:1.7.10-1.3.1
    Jul 22 04:39:50 Updated: thunderbird.i386 1.0.6-1.1.fc3
    Jul 22 04:39:51 Updated: fetchmail.i386 6.2.5-7.fc3.1
    Jul 22 04:40:02 Updated: firefox.i386 1.0.6-1.1.fc3
    Jul 23 04:46:40 Updated: perl.i386 3:5.8.5-14.FC3
    Jul 23 04:47:15 Updated: kdenetwork.i386 7:3.3.1-3.2
    Jul 23 04:47:15 Updated: kdenetwork-devel.i386 7:3.3.1-3.2
    Jul 23 04:47:17 Updated: mgetty.i386 1.1.31-3_FC3
    Jul 23 04:47:18 Updated: perl-suidperl.i386 3:5.8.5-14.FC3

    Will someone PLEASE help me figure out what has caused this error and
    what to do to correct it? I'm at a loss.

    Many, many thanks,

    Mark 

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