[ILUG] Getting pop to work

[Harry Moreau]

On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got an install of RH5.1 on a 486 and I'm trying to get it to work as a pop 
> (well.... ultimately IMAP, when I get a better box) server. The machine's 
> accepting pop connections (the mailer isn't barfing) from a win95 client without 
> complaint but the mail isn't being pulled from it.

Are you sure it's accepting connections?
Can you telnet to it?  Its port number is 110.
You should be able to do the following:

$ telnet linux.mail.server.sun.com 110
and get a response like:-
Connected to linux.mail.server.sun.com
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 linux.mail.server.sun.com v4.47 server ready

You can then check for mail with:-

$ user joeuser
+OK User name accepted, password please
$ pass badword
+OK Mailbox open, 0 messages
l$ ist
+OK Mailbox scan listing follows
..
$ quit
+OK Sayonara
Connection close by foreign host.
$ _

Note the $ prompts do NOT appear once you're logged into the pop server, I've
just inserted them to show which bits you should type.

-- Harry Moreau -------------