On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:45 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 18:17, Craig White wrote: > > can you login to that via telnet? > > > > telnet localhost 124 > > > > . login pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount mypass > > > > that's a non-standard port and a non standard way of passing an > > account login that you are using - would be good to know if you can > > login. > > > Hmm - as soon as I read that I realised that the old server is > collecting via PopFile running as a proxy. I removed the 'port 124' > and tried again (presumably that uses the standard pop3 port). > Unfortunately, that still gives the same error. ---- and unfortunately, I still have to ask the same question... can you login via telnet ? (example was given) Craig
