Fetchmail socket problem
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Jan 23 08:30:34 UTC 2006
On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 22:51, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:21 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 21:02, Craig White wrote:
> > > um...do you have a pop server running?
> > >
> > > dovecot?
> >
> > Dovecot is configured to serve imap.
>
> ----
> imap and pop3 are different protocols
>
> # grep pop3 /etc/services
> pop3 110/tcp pop-3 # POP version 3
> pop3 110/udp pop-3
> pop3s 995/tcp # POP-3 over SSL
> pop3s 995/udp # POP-3 over SSL
>
> # grep imap /etc/services
> imap 143/tcp imap2 # Interim Mail Access
> Proto v2
> imap 143/udp imap2
> imap3 220/tcp # Interactive Mail
> Access
> imap3 220/udp # Protocol v3
> imaps 993/tcp # IMAP over SSL
> imaps 993/udp # IMAP over SSL
>
> non ssl pop3 uses port 110/ non ssl imap uses 143
> dovecot would have to be configured to to serve pop3 to connect to
> port 110
> ----
Clearly I'm not understanding something here. I thought that fetchmail
needed to know that my isp's mail server is pop3. I didn't think that
dovecot was involved at that stage.
>
> > > Is it configured to accept pop3 connections?
> >
> > You mean locally? It's configured to accept imap connections on the
> > lan, but I was still at the stage of testing fetchmail on the
> > command line, so I shouldn't have introduced any further
> > complications.
>
> ----
> fetchmail can't connect to port 110 if the server isn't configured to
> provide pop3 connections. perhaps you should tell fetchmail to use
> imap instead of pop3
> ----
The problem is that my old setup had the PopFile tagging package in the
chain, and I can't remember the order that I set those things up. I do
know that the old server uses pop3 in its fetchmailrc. I'm confused at
the moment. I need to get to grips with the order that things happen.
>
> > > is it running?
> >
> > Yes, it's running, and I can connect. From this box I can see the
> > messages I moved into one of its folders. (The aim is to copy
> > across all mail onto that laptop, so that it can function as server
> > while I rebuild the real server).
>
> ----
> if all you want to do is move it, why not just tar it up and transfer
> the tar file?
>
Because the old server had the messages in mbox format and I want the
new server to use maildir.
Anne
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