On 05-Dec-04 Stan wrote:
On Sunday 05 December 2004 09:05, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-12-05 08:49:16 +0000 Stan stan@linuxmail.co.uk wrote:
Have set up KMail and was looking at the setting for POP. It says Port 995. I thought that should be 110. When I changed it to 110 it said Unable to contact ISP. [...]
I think POP runs on port 995 if it is encrypted/SSL, 110 if it is in the clear.
Thanks, feel better now I wasn't sure if it was because "Bad Things" were happening -- Regards Stan
That's correct. From /etc/services (which is where to find out what port corresponds to what):
pop3 110/tcp pop-3 # POP version 3 pop3 110/udp pop-3
pop3s 995/tcp # POP-3 over SSL pop3s 995/udp # POP-3 over SSL
Interesting, though, that (a) KMail wanted to set 995 as default, (b) The ISP rejected 110. I thought most ISPs used (or at least accepted) 110 (plain POP3), so that 110 should be the default. It's almost as though KMail *knew* that this ISP wanted POP3s!
Ted.
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