[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 POP3 login but no mail

[David Wynter at roamware]

Found it, somehow when the machine was rebooted sendmail had it's conf
changed to use mbox, not maildir, I was looking at old files in maildir.
Maybe the sysadmins at the hosting co. put in a std config for sendmail
(since the machine had locked up) when they brought it up, don't know.

Thx,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org]On
Behalf Of Gerald V. Livingston II
Sent: 05 April 2005 21:18
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 POP3 login but no mail


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:23:37 +0100 David Wynter <david at stpenable.com> wrote:

> I tried from W2K "telnet <hostname> 110", it connects "+OK dovecot
ready.",
> then I typed "LOGIN <username> <password>" and i get "-ERR Unknown
> command.". However with Outlook it logs in fine I see in maillog the
result,
> no other errors in maillog.

"LOGIN" is not a valid POP3 command -- it is an authentication method.

Depending on what auth methods you have enabled the password you have to
send during a login sequence may have to be CRYPTed before typing it in.

Here is the sequence for logging in via telnet to check what the server
thinks is in your mail directory.

(Yes, it says AVG POP3 Proxy server -- that's the virus gateway installed
on the windows machine I am doing this from -- it opens a clean pipe to the
Dovecot server at the other end of the "telnet myserver.domain.tld 110"
command.

telnet myserver.domain.tld 110
+OK AVG POP3 Proxy Server 7.0.307/7.0.308 [266.9.1]
user myuser at mydomain.tld
+OK
pass mypass
+OK Logged in.
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+OK 7 15831
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