[Ti] What is port 110?

[Ric Perrott]

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 01:27  PM, Mark Swanson wrote:

> I just installed a new 200 gig drive in my PowerMac G4, along with the 
> original 80 gig drive.  Installed OS 10.2.3 on both, clean install on 
> the new drive and installed over 10.1.5 on the original drive.  Both 
> seem to work fine.  The original "main" drive has mail and browser 
> working fine.  The same set up on the new drive keeps telling me the 
> the mail program and browser can't communicate on "port 110".  I 
> checked all system prefs for port information, no go.  How do I change 
> (if that is what I need to do) the port the new drive/system is using? 
>  When I changed the drive in my TiBook and upgraded to 10.2.3, no 
> problems with mail or browser.  Is this a terminal operation?  mark
> P

Port 100 is the normal port for POP3 email. The message probably means 
that Mail cannot connect to whatever mail server you are trying to 
connect to via POP3. Perhaps there is a need for authentication?

You can change the port that Mail uses for POP3 in 
preferences->Accounts.