On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:13 -0400, William Case wrote: > For those who may be concerned. > > Fixed by Rogers at about 9:30 this morning. > > I only report because I often follow threads. And, like little mystery > stories, it is disconcerting when I never find out if the butler did it. > Besides, when one gets some not to bad service that should be recognized > as often as the complaints. > > On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 08:59 -0700, Bill Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Sorry if this is a duplicated posting. Not sure the first one got through. > > This one has some added info. > > > > I am getting the following error: > > "Unable to connect to POP server pop.broadband.rogers.com. > > Error sending password: -ERR Error logging in. Please visit > > http://mail.yahoo.com > I was about to say, when I see weird stuff like that on mail systems, I try ye ol' manual POP session via telnet to see what's what (Evolution's error messages can be cryptic): # telnet pop.broadband.rogers.com 110 +OK (sign-on messages appear) user billlinux +OK (some message about password) pass (your password) +OK (messages regarding "Mailbox open, xx messages) quit +OK (signoff messages) Stuff from the server is prefixed with a "+" sign and the messages will vary depending on the pop server. Example with one of mine: [root@prophead ~]# telnet pop-01-001.root-mail.com 110 Trying 64.7.195.100... Connected to pop-01-001.root-mail.com (64.7.195.100). Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 pop-01-001.root-mail.com v2003.83 server ready user rps2 +OK User name accepted, password please pass ************** +OK Mailbox open, 3 messages quit +OK Sayonara Connection closed by foreign host. IMAP isn't that much more difficult to test. > [snip] > -- > Regards Bill > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
