On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 20:57 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 20:45, Craig White wrote: > > 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) > > > Sorry, forgot to report back on that. I think I'm right in using port > 100? > > telnet localhost 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1.... > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused. > > I thought maybe it was a firewall issue, but although iptables is > install the firewall is disabled as the laptop is behind a hardware > router. ---- um...do you have a pop server running? dovecot? Is it configured to accept pop3 connections? is it running? Craig
