On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:21 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. ---- imap and pop3 are different protocols # grep pop3 /etc/services pop3 110/tcp pop-3 # POP version 3 pop3 110/udp pop-3 pop3s 995/tcp # POP-3 over SSL pop3s 995/udp # POP-3 over SSL # grep imap /etc/services imap 143/tcp imap2 # Interim Mail Access Proto v2 imap 143/udp imap2 imap3 220/tcp # Interactive Mail Access imap3 220/udp # Protocol v3 imaps 993/tcp # IMAP over SSL imaps 993/udp # IMAP over SSL non ssl pop3 uses port 110/ non ssl imap uses 143 dovecot would have to be configured to to serve pop3 to connect to port 110 ---- > > > 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. ---- fetchmail can't connect to port 110 if the server isn't configured to provide pop3 connections. perhaps you should tell fetchmail to use imap instead of pop3 ---- > > > 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). ---- if all you want to do is move it, why not just tar it up and transfer the tar file? Craig
