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Re: can't connect to mailserver

Subject: Re: can't connect to mailserver
From: "Alan Mongtomery"
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:14:38 -0000
Newsgroups: opera.mail+news
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:48:38 -0000, Christian Schneider <christianschneider1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Mongtomery wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:24:05 -0000, Christian Schneider <christianschneider1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


with the telnet command, also othing happens:

christian@linux:~> telnet pop3.arcor.de pop3
Trying 151.189.21.113...

i don't need any security settings as far as i know. the helppage doesn't mention anything, and thunderbird is configured without ssl or tsl.



This implies either the IP address is incorrect, the routing for this IP address is wrong, or there is no POP3 server on this machine at the standard port.

The fact that thunderbird connects implies that the DNS and routing is correct, or that it is doing something odd. Check the output of netstat while thunderbird is fetcing mail - it should show a conection to 151.189.21.113:110


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