Thanks Chris & Andy. 1:30 AM :)
I realized that I was talking to the wrong port, but there is no undo for email...
Thanks.
Otis
On Thu, 16 March 2000, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
> 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
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