On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 21:02, Craig White wrote: > um...do you have a pop server running? > > dovecot? > Dovecot is configured to serve imap. > Is it configured to accept pop3 connections? You mean locally? It's configured to accept imap connections on the lan, but I was still at the stage of testing fetchmail on the command line, so I shouldn't have introduced any further complications. > is it running? > Yes, it's running, and I can connect. From this box I can see the messages I moved into one of its folders. (The aim is to copy across all mail onto that laptop, so that it can function as server while I rebuild the real server). Anne