Fetchmail socket problem

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:45 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.
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and unfortunately, I still have to ask the same question...

can you login via telnet ? (example was given)

Craig