Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:09:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: patrick@night.xinside.com (Patrick Giagnocavo) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd problem with 2.2-Oct. SNAP + POP3 // fetchmail... Message-ID: <199612272309.QAA25449@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612240401.VAA07914@night.xinside.com> from "Patrick Giagnocavo" at Dec 23, 96 09:01:30 pm
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> Please respond to both patrick@xinside.com and pgiag@earthlink.net if > possible, in addition to the list if you wish... > > I am simply having the darndest time figuring out what is going on > between my ISP and my Dell XPi Notebook running 2.2-961014-SNAP. I am > using the iijppp (tun0 driver) package to connect to my ISP. > Everything connects fine, I can surf the WWW no problem. > > In trying to get my email though I see the following behavior: > > -- I connect via POP3 using either Netscape 3.01 Gold or using the > fetchmail client (latest version). > > -- connection is made, password accepted. Either client gets the > information about how many messages there are, and the size of the > first message. > > -- then, nothing; absolutely nothing. I can leave it alone as long as > I want, but no POP mail is downloaded. No modem lights blink, no data > seems to be transmitted. > > -- I have an ancient Mac (that I of course will not be taking on the > road with me as travel back East this Christmas). It is able to > download just fine. > > Ideas? There is a follow-on RFC (1957) to the POP RFC (1725) which explains this problem. Basically, your POP server is not compliant. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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