Re: pop server
What happens when you try to telnet kimber 110? If that succeeds, there's
some problem with the setup of your POP server in terms of compatibility
with the client. If it fails, there's a network problem.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:05:48 -0700
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> wrote:
>
>
> > If the machine running the pop3 server is properly configured (no TCP
> > wrappers, no firewall, etc) from some other machine you should be able
> > to:
> >
> > telnet machine pop3 (whatever the machine's name is). If this fails but
> > you can do it from the machine running the pop server you have a) a
> > network issue b) an over secure problem (meaning something is protecting
> > the pop server and shouldn't be).
>
> Well, I tried to pre-empt that sort of problem by opening what I thought
> were the right ports in my firewall (110 tcp/udp).
>
> I did the same for ftp, and that works OK.
>
> What else might it be?
>
> - Richard.
>
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