From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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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.
Then the right solution is the way I suggested, Anne.
{^_^}
