On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 23:17, jdow wrote: > From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > 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. > > If it is explicitly configured for ONLY imap then of course pop3 > will not work. So a "telnet localhost imap" is called for. Of course, > actually logging in is a pain and probably will require reading and > figuring out the imap RFCs. It requires an N digit serial number with > leading zeros in front of each command. > > >> 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). > > Then what IS the problem? > {o.o} The problem is that I can't pull messages in from my isp. I believe that dovecot is doing it work, so it's some other part of the chain that I have wrongly configured. Anne