From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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)
I'd say you can't - the way you are doing it.
Use tcpdump to see exactly what your program sends back and forth.
Usually the procedure is something like this:
===8<---
$ telnet localhost pop3
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK dovecot ready.
user XXXXXXXX
+OK
pass XXXXXXXX
+OK Logged in.
list
+OK 1 messages:
1 7437
.
quit
+OK Logging out.
Connection closed by foreign host.
===8<---
Note that this is pop3 not pop3s, imap, or imaps. All are different. (And
IMAP is a bloody pain to work with manually. The secure versions - fergit it.)
{^_^}
