+++ Philip S Tellis [linux-india] <25/01/02 13:35 +0530>:
> > I am not having any problem downloading the mails. What is ths error
> > after the CAPA command ? I looked up the fetchmail man page and there
> > is no CAPA flag in it.
>
> My guess is that fetchmail is trying one of the extended pop3 protocols
> first - APOP, RPOP or KPOP. This would happen if you've set your
> protocol option to AUTO (instead of explicitly saying POP3 or something
> else).
Nope. CAPA (aka CAPABILITY) is a carryover from IMAP, and announces the
commands a POP server supports.
Not all POP servers implement it ... Qpopper from Qualcomm does.
So ...
suresh@mjollnir 16:21:22 [~]$ telnet mail.symonds.net 110
Trying 66.92.42.136...
Connected to mail.symonds.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Qpopper (version 4.0.3) at symonds.net starting.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CAPA
+OK Capability list follows
TOP
USER
LOGIN-DELAY 0
EXPIRE 0
UIDL
RESP-CODES
AUTH-RESP-CODE
X-MANGLE
X-MACRO
X-LOCALTIME Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:20:44 -0800
IMPLEMENTATION Qpopper-version-4.0.3
.
quit
+OK Pop server at symonds.net signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
Other servers prefer to display their capablities only after the user
authenticates himself with USER and PASS.
-srs
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
[Linux One Stanza Tip] From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LOST #042 -**< Sub : Ctrl+Alt+Del key bindings (#2) >**-
To change the bindings of ctrl+alt+del so that it does sweet
nothing (i.e. disabled) on a 'three finger salute':-
As root, edit /etc/inittab. Comment (#) the following line:
#ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
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