[X Newbies] Port 110

[J]

I have NO firewall.

On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 04:55  PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:

>
> On Nov 26, 2003, at 08:23, R.Welz wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 26.11.2003 um 14:41 schrieb Mac OS X Newbies:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:16:57 -0500
>>> Subject: [X Newbies] Port 110
>>> From: J <themacintoshlady at earthlink.net>
>>> Message-Id: <7713B0C6-1F9D-11D8-BF23-000393C1AFBA at earthlink.net>
>>>
>>> What is the cure for the Can't Connect to the server on Port 110
>>> ailment my mail.app seems to have contracted today?? <sigh>
>>>
>>> Cable was never this flaky.
>>>
>>>
>> Firewall: Try disabling FW in System Preferences. If that helps, 
>> there is a button to enter Port 110 as allowed Port.
>
> I'm sorry, this is not correct.  The firewall preferences determine 
> allowances for INBOUND connections on a port.  The response from an 
> external POP server will be directed to the port of whichever random 
> number above 1023 the Mac used in its connection attempt, not port 
> 110.  It will be SOURCED from port 110.
>
>> Firewall on Router.
>
> Same issue.
>
>> Server or Port on Server down.
>
> Quite likely.  One debugging step is to attempt a telnet connection 
> from the Mac to port 110 of the mail server.  If it succeeds, the 
> problem is with Mail.app.  If it fails, the problem is elsewhere 
> (network or destination server).
>
> KeS
>
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