Subject: RE: POP3 Problem/Question

From: George Gallen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:27:26 -0500

Ok. that worked, so it's not our firewall.

I read through the FAQ, and below seemed to be the
correct method. I'm in the midst of loaded and playing
with fetchmail, but in the mean time, I'd still like
to get pine to do it (if it can).

George

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Zander [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 2:15 PM
To: George Gallen
Cc: Pine Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: POP3 Problem/Question

George,

RE: testing a POP3 connection.   Do you have
access to telnet?  Can you telnet to
pop.erols.com on port 110? A POP3 server
should answer.  Type quit to exit it.
If you get no reply, check your firewall
and other connections.

Karl Zander

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, George Gallen wrote:

> I tried to setup a folder as a POP3 folder
> 
> When adding the folder we used:
> 
> {pop.erols.com/pop3/user=username}INBOX
> 
> After entry, the cursor went to the bottom of the screen
> and did nothing, If I pressed <ENTER>, then it loaded the
> previous folder (a local INBOX), no error messages, just nothing.
> 
> I also tried {pop.erols.com/pop3} hoping username would
> come up.
> 
> I checked the configuration options thinking I had to
> turn on the POP3, but didn't see anything.
> 
> One thought I had was possibly our firewall may be blocking
> outgoing pop3 requests? But before I submitted a "request" to
> ask if that were the case, I'd check to make sure everyhing
> was setup correctly. Is there anyway to test the above
> thoeory? that is, is there a pop3 server that is known to
> work that I could check against?
> 
> Aside from using fetchmail (which I'm looking into at present).
> 
> Using Pine 4.03
> 
> George Gallen
> [email-masked]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Gallen [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 4:01 PM
> To: Pine Discussion Forum
> Subject: RE: Erols and IMAP (now a pop3 question)
> 
> 
> Never mind....spoke with erols, they only allow pop3
> access. Do I need to add anything to my unix system to
> allow pine to access mailboxs via pop3? 
> 
> George Gallen
> [email-masked]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Gallen [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 3:34 PM
> To: Pine Discussion Forum
> Subject: Erols and IMAP
> 
> 
> We have someone in our group, that wants to access their
> email from their erols account using pine (on a unix system).
> 
> Does anyone know if erols has the ability to IMAP access to
> their members mail? I tried erols.com as the host, but our
> DNS shot that one down. Would the username/password be the
> same as thier login username/password?
> 
> We are using pine 4.05.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> George Gallen
> [email-masked]
> 
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From: Karl Zander <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:43:07 -0500

George,

Is the line in the pine.conf

inbox-path={pop.erols.com/pop3}INBOX

Do you have a pine.conf.fixed file?  Check
the settings there.  Those settings would
take priority over anything else.

Karl

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From: George Gallen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:11:03 -0500 (EST)

My inbox-path points to a local INBOX. I'm trying
to setup another folder (not the primary inbox).

George

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From: George Gallen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:52:27 -0500 (EST)

The problem might be either one of two things.

1. A configuration problem. When I attempted to setup a folder
   using pop3 from my pine account, it worked ok. I will have
   to look deeper into what differences are between the two
   config files. The problem occured when I tried to setup the
   pop3 folder from the other users account. Although we
   both have system group privs, so I don't think it's a
   unix permissions problem.

2. When it asked for the server name, I may have entered
   {pop.erols.com/pop3/user=xxx}INBOX instead of just
   pop.erols.com/pop3/user=xxx, then wait for the next question.
   But I don't think that was the problem, because the cursor
   just hung with no type of error message.

I'll have to try again on Monday, looking VERY carefully at
what I'm being asked for input, not what I THINK I'm being
asked.

Thanks
George

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:52:33 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

George,
In that case, here's an excerpt from my pinerc that may be relevant to
you:

 incoming-folders="USWEST" {pop.sttl.uswest.net/pop3/user=tgray}INBOX

-teg