[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?

[bill]

"Robert G. Brown" wrote:

> What I beleive you want to use is a package called FETCHMAIL. It does
> EXACTLY what you're looking for, and more, too!

So fetchmail will get the mail from a POP3 server and act as a POP3 server
internally, too?

> Sendmail and fetchmail coexistest very nicely on the same machine, or you can
> run fetchmail on a different host and send the collected mail to the LAN mail
> server. Configuration is pretty straightforward, and it all ships with several
> popular distributions.

Well, I found a gui configuration program called fetchmailconf and installed it.
(So how long is an "interval"? Seconds? minutes? Is this like a henway?)  I've
configured it to "fetch" mail from a server, and running it in debug mode it says it
found and retrieved my test message.  BUT, I can't access the machine via POP3 from
another (local) machine.  I.e., the message is on the fetchmail local machine, but
when I try to "get" that mail from another machine (pointing the program to the
fetchmail box) , it just times out.

Is there a service I need to enable on the fetchmail box?

thanks,

bill