On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 22:51, Craig White wrote: > 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 > ---- Clearly I'm not understanding something here. I thought that fetchmail needed to know that my isp's mail server is pop3. I didn't think that dovecot was involved at that stage. > > > > 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 > ---- The problem is that my old setup had the PopFile tagging package in the chain, and I can't remember the order that I set those things up. I do know that the old server uses pop3 in its fetchmailrc. I'm confused at the moment. I need to get to grips with the order that things happen. > > > > 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? > Because the old server had the messages in mbox format and I want the new server to use maildir. Anne
