[Dovecot] POP3 problem

[Alexander Shikoff]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:30:03AM -0400, michal wrote:
>    Hey all this is my first post to this list.
>    I have fresh Red Hat AS 4.0 with postfix 2.1. This will be my mail server.
>    I have one problem with pop3. My mail server is working properly. I did the following test:
>    Sent an email to some other server(yahoo.com)->email got there fine.
>    From that other server(yahoo.com) replaied-> to the new server and email got there
>    fine,checked using pine.
>    Now in x windows on the mail server if i lunch email client software and set up the account,
>    then i can send and receive emails fine so pop3 is working. But when i go to different machine
>    like PC set up outlook then i cannot receive emails. I get error in outlook that the
>    connection has failed. So i telnet 192.168.1.10 110 and I have gotten response from the server
>    250 dovecot OK. I really dont what to do at this time. I have been trying couple different
>    things without any luck..... need some help?
>    Mike
> 

Try to enable next options in dovecot.conf:
mail_debug = yes
auth_debug = yes
auth_verbose = yes

and restart dovecot. 

These options should help you to understand the reasons of your trouble.
Take a look in dovecot log file.

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