#424954 gnubiff: pop3 unable to connect.

Package:
gnubiff
Source:
gnubiff
Description:
mail notification program for GNOME (and others)
Submitter:
jasen
Date:
2010-07-18 23:15:07 UTC
Severity:
important
#424954#5
Date:
2007-05-18 02:03:14 UTC
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To:
I get the error message

** (gnubiff:18476): WARNING **: [1] Unable to connect to
mail.treshna.com on port 110

yet that port is open...

foo$ $ nc mail.treshna.com 110
+OK Qpopper (version 4.0.5) at tyreal.treshna.com starting.
<15354.1179453466@tyreal.treshna.com
#424954#10
Date:
2010-07-18 13:53:56 UTC
From:
To:
[ followup on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424954 ]

Hi,

thanks for the report and sorry for the delay.

I can reproduce this. However, it looks like the tcp connection is
actually established (with the pop server correctly answering). Maybe
the gnubiff internal status handling is wrong in this case. I could work
around it by using the "user/pass" authentication in the gnubiff
settings instead of the default "auto" setting.

bye,
  Roland
#424954#17
Date:
2010-07-18 13:53:56 UTC
From:
To:
[ followup on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424954 ]

Hi,

thanks for the report and sorry for the delay.

I can reproduce this. However, it looks like the tcp connection is
actually established (with the pop server correctly answering). Maybe
the gnubiff internal status handling is wrong in this case. I could work
around it by using the "user/pass" authentication in the gnubiff
settings instead of the default "auto" setting.

bye,
  Roland
#424954#22
Date:
2010-07-18 22:45:21 UTC
From:
To:
mail.treshna.com has switched from Qpopper to Dovecot,

possibly the bug is only present when GnuBiff is used against Qpopper.