Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:06:15PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Find an OE user who can access their e-mail via some sort of
> "webmail". Send them a message. Have them check to see if they
> get the message via "webmail". If it's not there, this isn't
> an OE problem (nor Debian) and possibly not a mutt problem. If
> it is there, then have them get their e-mail with OE and see
> if it mysteriously has disappeared.
Or even better, with some social engineering, find their POP box
username and password, telnet into it, and check that the email has
arrived. Check that it's retriveable. If Outlook still refuses to
believe that the message exists then find the LART...[1]
telnet session would as follows:
telnet mail.blah.blah 110
> [welcome message]
< USER username
> [OK]
< PASS password
> [OK or ERR Bad Pass]
< STAT
> [number of messages, size in octets of all messages]
hopefully there's only 1: yours!
< RETR 1
text of your email will be shown
a '.' terminates the email
< QUIT
where > is text sent from server and < is text sent to server.
[1] LART: Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool
$> dict LART
for more info
Matthew
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