Fetchmail socket problem

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 20:57 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 20:45, Craig White wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > ----
> > and unfortunately, I still have to ask the same question...
> >
> > can you login via telnet ? (example was given)
> >
> Sorry, forgot to report back on that.  I think I'm right in using port 
> 100?
> 
> telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1....
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused.
> 
> I thought maybe it was a firewall issue, but although iptables is 
> install the firewall is disabled as the laptop is behind a hardware 
> router.
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um...do you have a pop server running?

dovecot?

Is it configured to accept pop3 connections? is it running?

Craig