Colin Lloyd wrote:
> Any other command-line suggestions?
Use telnet and type the commands directly. That way you can debug the
thing properly.
$ telnet mail.environmetrics.co.uk pop3
+OK server ready
USER colin@???
+OK
PASS <your password>
(some message from the server telling you if you've logged in or not)
LIST
QUIT
The LIST command will show you how many items you have in your mailbox
and QUIT is fairly obvious.
Are you sure this is a problem with your POP3 box? It may well be
that it's an SMTP problem instead. If so, then you need some other
commands:
$ telnet mail.environmetrics.co.uk smtp
220 smtp-in-124.livemail.co.uk ESMTP Postfix
EHLO environmetrics.co.uk
250-smtp-in-124.livemail.co.uk
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 31457280
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250 8BITMIME
421 Error: timeout exceeded
This shows that this mail server does not require authorisation.
Compare this to another server that does:
220 server42.ukservers.net ESMTP SMTP Server
250-server42.ukservers.net
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 50000000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
Notice the 250-AUTH lines here. It also supports TLS so that you can
do make a secure connection if required.
Trying to debug these things via an application is useless and
frustrating in my experience.
--
Hubert Matthews http://www.oxyware.com/
Software Consultant hubert@???
