I came in late to this conversation, but.. Have you tried just to telnet to your pop server and see what happens? For example, here is a typical transcript from a telnet session to my pop server. telnet netmail.home.com 110 Trying 24.0.95.143... Connected to femail.sdc1.sfba.home.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK InterMail POP3 server ready. USER myusername <---You type this line +OK please send PASS command PASS mypassword <---You type this line +OK myusername is welcome here LIST <---Your command +OK 0 messages . HELP -ERR Invalid command Commands: DELE, LIST, LAST, NOOP, RETR, RSET, STAT, TOP, UIDL or QUIT
Joel n Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:12:57AM -0800, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:27:15 +0100 > Martin Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri Feb 22, 2002 at 11:54:38PM -0800, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > > [...snip...] > > > # POP ##################################################################### > > > set pop_user = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > [...snip...] > > > Every time I try to read my mail Mutt says that login failed: > > > > > > "Login failed. USER: unknown or invalid command in this state [USER]" > > > > > > What do I have to set to get this to work? > > > > The 'USER: unknown' bit makes me think you should try just: > > > > set pop_user = "jerryvb" > > I tried this: set pop_user = "jerryvb" ; got the same error message. > > Am I using Mutt correctly? > 1. I open up a xterm window, using KDE 2.2.2 on SuSE 7.3. > 2. At command prompt I type "mutt", press Enter. Mutt opens up, no errors. > 3. I press Shift+G > 4. Mutt goes through several attempts to login to my mail server before it > finally stops and reports the error message above. > > I'm brand new to Mutt, so any advice is welcome. > > Thanks > > > > > Otherwise the POP-server thinks you're trying to log in as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop3.ispwest.com. > > > > Mind you, I'm just guessing here... Anyway, hope this helps. > > > > -- > > Martin Karlsson | I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! > > keyid & fingerprint in headers > > visit http://www.gnupg.org for more info > >
