[Sderby] remote login to a POP3 server

[Roger Whiteley]

But surely you can reconfigure IMAP to NOT use SSL,  going back to an older version is not really a viable long term solution.

Mike Hemstock <hemstock at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>On Monday 20 October 2003 11:19, andre.hefer at avhservices.co.uk wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Does anyone have advice re connecting to a SuSE 8.2 to read mail either as
>> POP3 or IMAP. I have had this running for a while using SuSE 7.2 acting as
>> a POP3 server.
>>
>> Under SuSE 8.2 I have the xinetd deamon running with the pop3 service
>> listening on port 110 and telnet listening on port 23.
>>
>> I am able to login via telnet and read my mail using pine.
>>
>> When I try and collect the mail using M$ Outlook Express I fail to get
>> authorised as a user (if SSL is disabled) or get authorised (if SSL is
>> disabled) but fail to connect to the pop3 server.
>>
>> I suspect that its something to do with encrypted passwords or authority to
>> run the pop3 deamon.
>>
>> Error messages are below
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Andre
>>
>> ************Error message from Outlook Express if "Server requires SSL NOT
>> connection is ticked *********** There was a problem logging onto your mail
>> server. Your User Name was rejected. Account: '10.29.0.10', Server:
>> '10.29.0.10', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION
>> state command', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error
>> Number: 0x800CCC91
>>
>> *********Error message from Outlook Express if "Server requires SSL
>> connection is  ticked ************* The connection to the server has
>> failed. Account: '10.29.0.10', Server: '10.29.0.10', Protocol: POP3, Port:
>> 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
>
>Andre,
>
>The IMAP server in SuSE 8.2 is configured to only allow SSL connections.  Just 
>remove it and then install the rpm off SuSE 8.1, which works fine or maybe 
>you need SuSE 8.0!  You get FTP the rpms from ftp.suse.com.
>
>Mike.
>
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