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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: odd problem with 2.2-Oct. SNAP + POP3 // fetchmail...
To: patrick@night.xinside.com (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:09:36 -0700 (MST)
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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
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