[Ti] What is port 110?

[Ric Perrott]

On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 01:41  PM, Ric Perrott wrote:

> 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.
> I
I am of course an idiot and meant to say port 110 is the POP3 port, not 
port 100.  ;-)