Fetchmail socket problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 18:17, Craig White wrote:
> can you login to that via telnet?
>
> telnet localhost 124
>
> . login pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount mypass
>
> that's a non-standard port and a non standard way of passing an
> account login that you are using - would be good to know if you can
> login.
>
Hmm - as soon as I read that I realised that the old server is 
collecting via PopFile running as a proxy.  I removed the 'port 124' 
and tried again (presumably that uses the standard pop3 port).  
Unfortunately, that still gives the same error.

Anne