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     <20120726.1043.1snz@cj4386.demon.co.uk>
     colin@cj4386.demon.co.uk "colin may" wrote:

> Still having no luck logging on to the new mail platform, below is what I do.
> 
> telnet mail.demon.co.uk 110
> Resolving mail.demon.co.uk... trying 91.221.168.28:110
> Telnet session 1 connected to mail.demon.co.uk
> +OK The Microsoft Exchange POP3 service is ready.
> 
> I type in username and get the message
> -ERR Protocol error  19

Are you just entering the username, or are you preceding it with the
command "user"?  If not, that would explain the error 19 (which seems to
be "unknown command").

e.g. type "user administrator@yourdomain.demon.co.uk<enter>"

> Type in password and get the message
> -ERR Protocol error  19

Ditto for the password: it must be preceded by the command "pass".

e.g. type "pass yourpassword<enter>"

Let us know if that helps, or if you're still having problems.

By the way, do you have web access that will allow you to use the Email
Management Portal?

Brief GremNOS status report: non-compliant "Return-Path:" fields are now
handled, and I've fixed the bug that stopped it putting POP3 messages in
the specified mailbox[*], but at present you have to either (a) set up
separate mailboxes for all your active usernames, then collect for each
mailbox separately, or (b) leave the single "administrator" mailbox as
the catch-all and put up with all messages being put into a single
mailbox, regardless of the original recipient address.

I'm intending to add an "auto" recipient mailbox mode, which will parse
the "Received:" fields (or failing that, the "To:" and "Cc:" fields) to
try to find the original recipient, so that it stands a fighting chance
of doing the right thing if you get messages for multiple recipients in
a single mailbox (e.g. you only have the detault administrator mailbox);
it probably won't handle multiple recipient messages particularly well
(unless they all have separate mailboxes), but I think it will be as
good as can be achieved without the old *ENV feature (RIP).

[*] the code worked the way I had documented it when I wrote it, but
that wasn't how I had really intended it to work... 8-/

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Simon Turner                                    DoD #0461
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