Thanks Mike, B.R. Stephen
At 11:37 PM 12/3/2001 +0000, you wrote: >On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 19:49, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > <synopsis> > > I no longer have the original post, but for those who do not remember, it > > was about the failure to get Kmail or fetchmail to download from a POP3 > > account that works with Eudora and Outlook Express. The Kmail error > > message, the verbose fetchmail output, and the telnet session all point to > > an authentication error. But Eudora and Outlook Express were able to get > > the mail without problems. He tried all combinations of authentication > > protocols in KMail, unsuccessfully. > > </synopsis> > > > > What if the DNS setup of the Windows box(es) was different than the DNS > > used by the Linux box? Then they would not actually be connecting to the > > same POP3 server. If one or the other pointed to a different DNS or had a > > different IP address for the POP3 server in the hosts file, then they > > could be connecting to different machines. > > > > That's the only thing I can think of, and it doesn't seem likely. Anyone > > else? > >The querent got back to me offlist - the problem turned out to be that >the isp wanted user_id+domain rather than just user_id > >I'd assume eudora and OE did some checking stuff to get round the prob _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
