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. Anne