Fetchmail socket problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 23:17, jdow wrote:
> From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
>
> > 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.
>
> If it is explicitly configured for ONLY imap then of course pop3
> will not work. So a "telnet localhost imap" is called for. Of course,
> actually logging in is a pain and probably will require reading and
> figuring out the imap RFCs. It requires an N digit serial number with
> leading zeros in front of each command.
>
> >> 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.
> >
> >> 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).
>
> Then what IS the problem?
> {o.o}

The problem is that I can't pull messages in from my isp.  I believe 
that dovecot is doing it work, so it's some other part of the chain 
that I have wrongly configured.

Anne