[Spambayes] Newbie question on non-standard POP3 client

Meyer, Tony T.A.Meyer at massey.ac.nz
Tue Aug 12 19:49:38 EDT 2003


> ok... Looks like I had one configuration problem with the 
> client. I was pointing it to port 8880.

As you've no doubt figured, localhost:8880 is the web interface.

> Once I set it to port 110 I got a failure. Before I was waiting up
> to 15 minutes to time-out.

Wow, The Bat! is very generous...

> Here's the log file results:
[...]
> -ERR authorization first

Odd.  I wondered if maybe this was The Bat! doing something strange, but
I downloaded & installed it and it works fine.  You get an "-ERR
authorization first" error if you try to retrieve (etc) mail without
logging in first, but the proxy should just be forwarding on those
commands.

> If I telnet to localhost 110 in a dosh shell I get a blank 
> window. If it hit <enter> it exits out to the shell prompt again.

Sounds like the proxy is working then (although I would have expected a
"+OK message" line to appear).

Could you try telnetting again, typing "USER username", then "PASS
password", then "LIST"?  (replacing username and password with the
appropriate values).  It should show a +OK message after each command
and then a list of the messages after the LIST command.

Richie - any ideas?

=Tony Meyer



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