It may be enlightening to try the connection manually. Do this:
# telnet <mail server name> 110
# USER <your mail user ID>
# PASS <your password>
Incidentally I noticed that a POP3 connection to rickrosinski.com is
refused, but mail.rickrosinski.com is OK.
HTH,
-- Rod
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I have just migrated to Redhat 6.2 from Slackware. So far, so good -
> until I tried retrieving mail from my ISP. After running netcfg and
> setting up the ppp interface, I successfully connected to the Net and
> was able to surf. Then, I tried setting up my mail client to retrieve
> mail from my site (rickrosinski.com) which I have done for a long time,
> successfully. The mail client (kmail) reports that my usr name &
> password are incorrect - which is strange, since it was set up the exact
> same way on my Slackware system. Then, I tried other mail clients. All
> report the same error. Everything works in Windoze as it always did.
>
> I am a newbie to Redhat, and have not mofified anything (except for what
> I did with netcfg).
>
> Please help!!!
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