Cyrus POP mail server not running on OSX server but something else is!!

[alfatec]

My OSX 10.3.5 Server has gone a little weird. I am problems with my POP 3 server and logins. Anyway after weeks of investigations and forum posts I have narrowed it down to a weird thing. The actual POP 3 mail client in OSX 10.3.5 Server is Cyrus. Now when I go into server admin and uncheck the IMAP and POP mail clients in the Mail settings, then stop and restart the mail service you would expect that there would be no POP mail client running. Wrong, I can still telnet into the mail client but it is NOT rpt NOT cyrus. I have also found that after I built a fresh OSX 10.3.5 server to do some investigative work on and telneted into port 110 it came up with the cyrus POP client but when I telnet into my OSX server it only comes up with POP3 OK. Does anyone know how do I get Cyrus to start and this other client to stop. I have not put any other client on the machine. Below is a copy of the telnet commands. You can see on the server with the problem with an IP of 10.5.6.1 that it is not the cyrus POP mail client that is being telneted into, but on the fresh install server of 10.15.7.210 that it is correct:

Welcome to Darwin!
osxserver:~ admin$ telnet 10.15.6.1 110
Trying 10.15.6.1…
Connected to 10.15.6.1.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK POP3 [10.15.6.1] v2003.83 server ready
user scr
+OK User name accepted, password please

-ERR Null command
quit
+OK Sayonara
Connection closed by foreign host.

osxserver:~ admin$ telnet 10.15.7.210 110
Trying 10.15.7.210…
Connected to 10.15.7.210.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK osxserver.sale.com Cyrus POP3 v2.1.13 server ready <[email protected]>

[alfatec]

OK will look for those first thing in the morning. Out of interest what is UWIMAP and POPD/POP3D and if they are running how do I stop them.

[alfatec]

OK found UWIMAP set as a service. Disabled these and it now works a treat. Only thing I have noticed is that my CPU usage is quite high since my mail is back to normal. If I do a TOP command it shows a service PERL running at nearly 50% Any ideas?

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