On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:08:53PM -0800, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> I got qmail (SMTD + POP3) running, but when I tried testing POP3 server I was
>surprised to see this response from the server:
>
> [root@nmlinux1 alias]# telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 machine.domain.com ESMTP
> HELP
> 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html
> USER otis
> 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong or missing something obvious? It is 1 AM here now.
It's 2 PM here on the other side of the world, and you're missing something
obvious. You're trying to talk POP to your SMTP server. Try telnetting to port
110 instead.
Chris
