On Tuesday 08 May 2007 1:28 pm, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, May 8 at 08:02 AM, quoth Ray:
It seems like your right, as this command does work when I use port 143, but the following is a direct copy and paste from http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestPop3Installation
# telnet your.host.org 110 1 login username password
Ummm... maybe it's changed since you saw it, but that's not what I see on that page.
It looks like I owe Joseba Torre an apology. I thought he was complaining about me, but it looks like he was complaining about an error in the docs which he or someone else has since fixed.
The POP3 protocol (according to RFC 1939) supports only two forms of authentication: APOP and the USER/PASS mechanism (like you have below).
# telnet localhost 110 user username pass password
So, I guess the next question becomes how come I can use
[that]
properly from any host, but a real client reports connection refused. (kmail is the main one I've been using)
That's an excellent question. How do you have kmail configured? Can you use a packetsniffer to snoop on its conversation with the server?
~Kyle
I have learned a little more since then, and it is probably a postfix error. I posted a full description to the postfix list, but I'll give a summary here, just in case. I'm not sure what has changed, but for whatever reason I can now send/receive/and relay through kmail but I can only receive, and send to a known account through outlook express. the logs seem to indicate that OE isn't even trying to authenticate. Ray