Email Help

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/23/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> I though I'd sent this message out about a week ago but haven't
> seen it show up or any replies so maybe I forgot (been doing a
> lot of OT at work lately).
>
> Anyway, awhile ago this list helped me get my son's XP machine to
> pick his email up from my FC2 box that uses fetchmail to go out
> and download the families email and hold it for later reading.
>
> Well that machine finally died and we had to purchase a new XP
> machine for school programs.
>
> The instructions were:
>
> Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service
> dovecot status" seems to be working OK.
>
> Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get
> dovecot answering back.
>
> Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143).
> On the old machine the email came right over.  ON the new machine
> I get a TCP/IP error.

Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If
so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was,
change the port permissions to get around it.

Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find
the firewall.

Hope this  helps,
Mark