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[SLUG] Re: netscape email login

To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] Re: netscape email login
From: Angus Lees <gusl@nospam.cse.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 07:01:36 +1000
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:24:52PM +1000, donohueb@nospam.icafe.com.au wrote:
> in netscape on a workstation, either in linux or windows NT, i can't
> login via imap (or pop3) to the mail server. the workstation gets the
> message...
> 
> netscape is unable to connect to the server at the location that you have
> specified. the server may be down or busy. try connecting later.

i'm guessing that error means the connection timed out, which means
that somewhere packets are being lost/dropped. probably a firewall, a
hosts.deny on the server, a screwed up routing table, etc

a tcpdump of failed connections would narrow it down fairly quick

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