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 fromhttp://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.
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?
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