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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: wykyd on November 03, 2003, 12:47:25 PM
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I am trying to get my pop access to my ISP E-mail.
I am running 5.6 as a gateway server with sites hosted but no E-mail configured, as it is not necesary.
My problem is I installed a fresh 5.6 after having some problems with 6b3, which I could access my ISP's pop mail. Now I get timed out and it never connects.
I can ping the server from the client plus the server.
I have added the IP's to the hosts folder as another thread sugested but to no avail.
any help would be appreciated.
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wykyd,
Can you confirm a connection on port 110?
In windows:
start/run type: cmd
at command line prompt, type: telnet 110
should look like this: telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 110
Try again using your SME internal IP address to see what should happen.
You will see an immediate response if it connects to a mail server. The cmd box will be frozen, so just close it. You will get a time out after a long time if the connection fails.
If this works, but your client does not, your problem is likely the client..or possibly firewall software. I have found Norton firewall to cause issues with POP3 clients. But since your using SME, you really don't need a software firewall.
ryan
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I am trying to access with mozilla mail from a slack 9 box.
I must say I have never tried telnet n *nix. But I have a win machine somewhere and will pull it out and try the above.
thanx I will post back the results.
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Yeah it turned out that slack was blocking 110, all sorted cheers.
it is always the simplest things, stupidly overlooked