Subject: Getting mail using SMTP

From: [email-masked] (Scott Steeves)
Date: 2 Aug 1995 11:25:34 GMT

I have Linux set up on my machine and I connect to my ISP using a SLIP 
connection.  I have attempted to configure pine to get my mail from my 
ISP using SMTP.  However, whenever I attempt to get my mail, I get a 
message stating that the connection was refused.  I have no problems 
sending mail out using SMTP, but I'm not allowed to check my mailbox.
   This initially appears to be a problem with the username and password, 
but I've tried a few things around this.  My username and password on the 
Linux machine are the same as on my provider, but that doesn't help.

   If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I'd appreciate them.

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From: [email-masked] ("David Johnson")
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 10:29:37 GMT

>sending mail out using SMTP, but I'm not allowed to check my mailbox.

If your ISP is providing mail by means of SMTP you don't have a mailbox,
on the server machine, like you would with POP3 or IMAP. What is
required is that when you connect to the ISP you have a SMTP daemon
running on you machine when you connect. The ISP should then when it
detects that you have connected to the system send you the mail that is
waiting for you. These mail messages will be deposited in mailboxes on
you local machine, depending on how the SMTP daemon has been configured.
You can then read the mail using pine looking at the local mailboxes.

>Linux machine are the same as on my provider, but that doesn't help.

Nope its nothing to do with that, pine with be attempting to connect to
the IMAPD (or POP3) port and I suspect that there is not a server
running on either port so it is giving connection refused as a result.

Hope this helps 

Dave

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