[TAG] 2c tip - debugging POP3 over ssl

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:57:26PM +0000, Neil Youngman wrote:
> On Monday 28 Nov 2005 15:39, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:59:58PM +0000, Neil Youngman wrote:
> > > I get consistent authorisation errors with 2 email clients, hence trying
> > > to debug it by using telnet directly to see the low level error message.
> > > As that doesn't work, I have to assume that is borked.
> >
> > Hmm, either I missed that piece of info or you hadn't mentioned it.
> > Well, let's see...
> 
> It started out as a 2c tip, not a request for help, so I didn't really go into 
> why I was debugging this.

It's a good one - I'm certainly glad to have the extra capability. Up
until now, I did all my SSL-based mail retrieval via Mutt, and didn't
know of a way to make the process more granular.


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