I did a telnet to the local IP of 127.0.0.1 110, same result. It's interesting, that the weird number is never the same, it's always a new, different number.
So, I think we can exclude our firewall from the potential list, right?
Couple weeks ago I telneted in several Imail email servers on port 25 and 110, (I got the addresses from this usergroup users email headers), to my surprise, 2 out of 10 Imail servers gave me this weird number response at that time. Since I was assuming that our email server was pretty old and possible corrupted in many ways, I did a fresh install this weekend, I even used a different PC and different physical location.
(of course I could not telnet in on most email servers through port 110 because they don't allow pop3 access from outside, but the weird number results I got, I got it through port 25.
Geza
At 02:58 PM 8/5/2003 Tuesday -0400, you wrote:
As far as I know, nothing should interfere with the pop3 service of Imail within our LAN in house, does someone has an idea why it is so weird? Or is it normal?
It looks like something is interfering. The first thing to do is to try telneting to port 110 on the server, from the same server ("telnet 127.0.0.1 110"), to see if that odd behavior still occurs. If so, there is something on the local server doing that; if not, it's probably a weird firewall issue.
If you do test telnet sessions to port 110 or 25, do you get these weird numbers within a complete email address?
Could someone send me a sample response from port 110? (so, that I would know what the proper response should be).
No. You should see something like "+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server s02.lhaarchitects.com (IMail 8.01 65-1)". It sounds like something is trying to turn the domain name into Message-ID: style data.
My guess is that your firewall is causing the problem.
-Scott
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