[ILUG] Mozilla-mail with eircom

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 13 March 2004 10:36, Peter McEvoy wrote:

> > I can send and receive email through the eircom webmail service,
> > but haven't managed to send email from Mozilla.
> > I get the message "Unable to access SMTP server %S".
> > although I have set the mail-server (in and out)
> > to mail1.eircom.net as prescribed.

> I dont use either mozilla mail or eircom, but I generally find telneting
> to the port you're having difficulty with a better troubleshooting tool
> than using ping. So in your case I'd try "telnet mail.eircom.net 25"
> If its working you should get something like:
> Trying 159.134.198.135...
> Connected to mail1.eircom.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ESMTP
>
> Hit control ] then enter to exit.

Thanks very much for your suggestion.
I notice that the port is set to 147, 
which seems to correspond to IMAP protocol.
I get no response on telnetting to this port,
thougth I do when telnetting to 109 or 110.
Does that mean I should be using POP?
I had the idea most mail-servers nowadays
allow one to use either?
(I confess to great ignorance on this as on many topics.)

I changed the protocol to POP, and this is using port 110,
but I still get the same error in mozilla-mail,
although I get the following telnet response,
which seems healthy:
=====================================
Script started on Sat 13 Mar 2004 13:31:32 GMT
[tim at william tim]$ telnet mail1.eircom.net 110
Trying 159.134.198.135...
Connected to mail1.eircom.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <31326.1079184705 at mail1.eircom.net>
gayleard
-ERR authorization first
Killed
[tim at william tim]$ exit

Script done on Sat 13 Mar 2004 13:32:36 GMT
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As ever, any further advice or suggestions gratefully received.





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