Re: Re (3): relaying POP3
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:35:42 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Peter E. writes:
> > > My first guess would be that it is MS Windows based. If you tell
> > > me how
> > >to obtain the server identity from fetchmail, I will try.
> >
> > Use telnet. 'telnet mailserver@myisp.com smtp' and type 'help' at the
> > prompt.
>
> Do you mean something like this?
>
> ~$ telnet localhost smtp
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 think.homenet ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
> help
> 502 5.5.2 Error: command not recognized
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 Bye
> Connection closed by foreign host
>
>
> But my local postfix did identify itself first.
The pop3 server is not the same thing as the smtp server. Shouldn't we
be telneting to 'servername pop'?
Celejar
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