"...110, timed out"

[Dale Wharton]

How come Alpine (PC-Pine 4.64) won't work at home? It's in
a dialup desktop XP.

inbox-path={cooptel.qc.ca/user=dwharton/pop3}INBOX

(This question is through PuTTY at Concordia University.)

Thanks for any help!
--
Dale Wharton ve2...@rac.ca M O N T R E A L (Te souviens-tu?)

[Rob Brown]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 at 16:43 -0400, Dale Wharton wrote:

> How come Alpine (PC-Pine 4.64) won't work at home?

You need a better problem statement.

What did you do? What did you see?

Perhaps your inbox path is mis-specified:

> inbox-path={cooptel.qc.ca/user=dwharton/pop3}INBOX

[brown@libra ~]$ telnet cooptel.qc.ca 110
Trying 216.144.115.30...

... no response.

If I try connecting to my server:

[brown@libra ~]$ telnet pop.gmcl.internal 110
Trying 10.1.186.206...
Connected to pop.gmcl.internal (10.1.186.206).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user brown
+OK
pass fred
-ERR Authentication failed.
quit
+OK Logging out
Connection closed by foreign host.

My advice: verify your inbox specification. Will it work from a
non-dialup connection? From here, it appears that there is no POP3
server at that address. The <telnet to port 110> test is usually
pretty useful. Your tech-support team should be able to help.

Good luck.

- Rob

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Rob Brown b r o w n a t g m c l d o t c o m
G. Michaels Consulting Ltd. (780)438-9343 (voice)
Edmonton (780)437-3367 (FAX)
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