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On Monday, in article
     <20120806.0930.2snz@cj4386.demon.co.uk>
     colin@cj4386.demon.co.uk "colin may" wrote:

> On Monday, in article
>      <20120806.0903.930245snz@twoplaces.co.uk>
>      simon@twoplaces.co.uk "Simon Turner" wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, in article
> >      <20120805.1127.11snz@cj4386.demon.co.uk>
> >      colin@cj4386.demon.co.uk "colin may" wrote:
> > 
> > > Carrying out some tests with pop3 and mail.demon.co.uk.
> > >
> > > Another problem has turned up In the last few hours. I telnet to
> > > mail.demon.co.uk 110 it lets me in, but the command list does not work.
> > > Get the message "err command not valid in this state". I went back to
> > > Gremnos 03d nhat was working two days ago. Same problem, has anything
> > > changed?
> > 
> > Nothing seems to have changed.  Are you remembering to send the
> > 
> >   user administrator@yourhost.dcu
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >   pass yourpassword
> > 
> > commands first, to ensure the server knows what mailbox you want to
> > list?  If I telnet in and just send "list", I get "-ERR Command is not
> > valid in this state"; but if I send the "user" and "pass" commands first
> > to authenticate myself, it works fine.
> 
> I've just seen your post, after resending the original
> 
> As far as I know, I typed in everything correctly several times. I'll try
> again just to make sure.

If it still doesn't work, please try to post an exact transcript of what
you sent to the server and how it responded (obscure any addresses or
passwords you don't want made public, of course!)

Getting the response "Command is not valid in this state" to a "list"
command definitely suggests that the server doesn't know what mailbox
you want a listing of, i.e. that you have failed to log in correctly.

-- 
Simon Turner                                    DoD #0461
simon@twoplaces.co.uk
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