What are you trying to do? telnet pop.<hostname> 110 tells telnet to find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking for.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote: > I'm getting in a bit of a muddle setting up qpopper as a mail server for a > local pc. > > >From my machine I can do: > telnet <hostname> pop3 > and see how many unread messages there are. > > But if I try > telnet pop.<hostname> 110 > I get: could not resolve pop.<hostname>/110: Name or service not known > > and essentially the same message when tried from the networked (windows) > pc. > > I'd be grateful for some pointers. > > Thanks, > - Richard. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
