That did it. It was the separator. I'm still unsure how that changed. Perhaps after a popfile upgrade through the Debian package ? I don't remember anymore.
Thanks for all the help John. Popfile is great software I can't live without. On 1/7/08, John Graham-Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kristis Makris wrote: > > $ telnet 127.0.0.1 7071 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > +OK POP3 POPFile ( v0.22.4) server ready > > user pop.gmail.com;995;recent:[EMAIL PROTECTED];ssl > > -ERR can't connect to pop.gmail.com;995;recent:110 > > Your email address when supplied to GMail is 'recent:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'? > > Did you change the POPFile separator from : to ;? That's the value of > pop3_separator. I think the problem is that you need to use ; because > you have : in your user name and somehow the setting got set back to the > default. Take a quick look on the Advanced tab. >