POP3 mail server problem

I am using Thunderbird 6 for email. Works OK after computer has been booted up. After that, trying get email doesn't work. Computer says " error with POP3 mailserver" but no details

I can no longer send emails using iPad and live.com account. Message "incorrect password" Yest password same on phone and pc where can send emails. Why?

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Error occurred with the POP3 mail server

When I first launch my email icon the following error pops up: An error occurred with the POP3 mail server. Mail server mail.midland-webhosting.com responded
What can I do so that I can access my email? Thanks!

Ok I will write lots and lots.
The mail server responded what is that question. You posted what looks like half the error message. So like you I do not understand. Those message have a second half that explains what the problem is.

Alerta An error occurred with the pop3 mail server. Mail server responded;

Boa tarde, ao receber email´s aparece a mensagem:
Alerta An error occurred with the pop3 mail server. Mail server responded;
Não utilizo gmail nem yahoo, outros usuários recebem normalmente os emails.
PAra enviar está normal sem problemas.
Obrigado.

Isto significa que o servidor requer uma autenticação segura e você não especificou, vá em '''Ferramentas''' >> '''Configurar contas...''' na sessão '''Servidor''' especifique um modo de autenticação e faça o teste novamente.

Mail Server Problem

The mail server problem has been resolved, mail is working as designed....yeah!!

silly discusting board, I've got 3 replies in my email but it's not showing here ...
anyway, this time I found after some chasing my tail .... that the mail preferences had wiped my password and I needed to reinstall it, then instruct it to go online and some other click stuff ....
and it seems to be ok now ....
but each round in past 2 weeks has been different "fix" .... or wait ....
sorry for anyone without master email for 5 days, that's just not right ....
I'm afraid that as apple starts "giving away" email accounts to build the cloud into something much bigger than the mobile me was .... that their folo up will fail and we will find ourselves not with the same apple durability / consistency but with the "hey it's free" attitude ....
let's see

Exception when fetch message from pop3 mail server

below exception occur whenever i fetched message from pop3 mail server. Its occur for perticular message. so i catched javax.mail.MessagingException but this is not working and rest of the messages skips.
plz help me , its urgent.
javax.mail.MessagingException: error loading POP3 headers;
nested exception is:
        java.io.IOException: Unexpected response: ------=_NextPart_000_01B9_01C8
A1AB.148BE090
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Message.loadHeaders(POP3Message.java:467)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Message.getHeader(POP3Message.java:275)
        at javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage.getSubject(MimeMessage.java:717)
        at fetch1.<init>(fetch1.java:92)
        at fetch1.main(fetch1.java:185)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected response: ------=_NextPart_000_01B9_0
1C8A1AB.148BE090
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.simpleCommand(Protocol.java:361)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.multilineCommand(Protocol.java:373)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.top(Protocol.java:271)
        at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Message.loadHeaders(POP3Message.java:451)
        ... 4 more
Press any key to continue...Code :-
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.Flags.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
public class fetch3
     fetch3()
          try
               // Setup properties
               Properties props = System.getProperties();
               props.put("mail.pop3.host","myMailserver ip");
               // Setup authentication, get session
               Authenticator auth = new PopupAuthenticator();
               Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, auth);
               // Get the store
               Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
               store.connect();
               // Get folder
               Folder folder = store.getFolder("INBOX");
               folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
               Flags flag = folder.getPermanentFlags();
               // Get directory
               Message message[] = folder.getMessages();
               // Display from (only first) and subject of messages
               for (int i=0, n=message.length; i<n; i++)
               System.out.println ("------------------------------------------------------");
                    System.out.println(" From     : "+message.getFrom()[0]);
                    System.out.println(" To : "+message[i].getAllRecipients()[0]+" "+message[i].getAllRecipients().length);
                    System.out.println(" Replyto : "+message[i].getReplyTo()[0]);
                    System.out.println(" Subject : "+message[i].getSubject());
                    System.out.println ("type "+message[i].getContent());
                    Part messagePart=message[i];
                    Object content=messagePart.getContent();
                    // -- or its first body part if it is a multipart message --
                    if (content instanceof Multipart)
                         messagePart=((Multipart)content).getBodyPart(0);
                    //     System.out.println("[ Multipart Message ]");
                    // -- Get the content type --
                    String contentType=messagePart.getContentType();
                    // -- If the content is plain text, we can print it --
                    System.out.println("CONTENT:"+contentType);
                    if (contentType.startsWith("text/plain") || contentType.startsWith("text/html") || contentType.startsWith("multipart/alternative"))
                         InputStream is = messagePart.getInputStream();
                         BufferedReader reader
                         =new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
                         String thisLine=reader.readLine();
                         while (thisLine!=null)
                              System.out.println(thisLine);
                              thisLine=reader.readLine();
                    System.out.println ("------------------------------------------------------");
               // Close connection
               folder.close(false);
               store.close();
          catch(Exception e)
               e.printStackTrace();
     public static void main(String s[])
          new fetch3();
Regards
Sagar
Edited by: sagar_birari on 23 Apr, 2008 1:18 PM
Edited by: sagar_birari on 23 Apr, 2008 4:30 PM

it shows below output
C:\>java -Dmail.debug=true fetch1
DEBUG: JavaMail version 1.4ea
DEBUG: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\java
mail.providers (The system cannot find the file specified)
DEBUG: !anyLoaded
DEBUG: not loading resource: /META-INF/javamail.providers
DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.providers
DEBUG: Tables of loaded providers
DEBUG: Providers Listed By Class Name: {com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport=javax
.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsyste
ms, Inc], com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com
.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLSt
ore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imaps,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore,Sun Microsyst
ems, Inc], com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3s,com.su
n.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore=jav
ax.mail.Provider[STORE,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc],
com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP
3Store,Sun Microsystems, Inc]}
DEBUG: Providers Listed By Protocol: {imaps=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,imaps,com.
sun.mail.imap.IMAPSSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], imap=javax.mail.Provider[STOR
E,imap,com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], smtps=javax.mail.Prov
ider[TRANSPORT,smtps,com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSSLTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc],
pop3=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store,Sun Microsystems
, Inc], pop3s=javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3s,com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun
Microsystems, Inc], smtp=javax.mail.Provider[TRANSPORT,smtp,com.sun.mail.smtp.S
MTPTransport,Sun Microsystems, Inc]}
DEBUG: successfully loaded resource: /META-INF/javamail.default.address.map
DEBUG: !anyLoaded
DEBUG: not loading resource: /META-INF/javamail.address.map
DEBUG: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\java
mail.address.map (The system cannot find the file specified)
DEBUG: getProvider() returning javax.mail.Provider[STORE,pop3,com.sun.mail.pop3.
POP3Store,Sun Microsystems, Inc]
DEBUG POP3: connecting to host "pop3_server_ip", port 110, isSSL false
S: +OK Hello there.
C: USER [email protected]
S: +OK Password required.
C: PASS mypass
S: +OK logged in.
DEBUG: setDebug: JavaMail version 1.4ea
C: STAT
S: +OK 16 143077
C: NOOP
S: +OK Yup.Edited by: sagar_birari on 24 Apr, 2008 1:16 PM
Edited by: sagar_birari on 24 Apr, 2008 1:18 PM

ORA AS 10g as a POP3 Mail Server?

Hi,
- Can i use Oracle application server 10g as a POP3 Mail Server?
- How?
Regards
IK

When you add a new mail account, put the information on the first screen and hold the Option key down when you hit continue. You will then get the options to create the type of account you want.

Mail Server: problem configuring dovecot with postifx and virtualhosts

Hi all,
I'm am struggling trying to configure a mail server. I have a dedicated server running archlinux.
I want to setup a complete mail server, ie: web access (for that I installed roundcube) and being able to retrieve mails on any e-mail client.
I followed this guide, from the documentation but I've read that courier-imap is a lot more resources hungry than dovecot. As I could not have it working using the documentation, I tought I would use dovecot. The problem is that I am not able to configure it.
What I already have up and running: web server (nginx) with postfixadmin and roundcubemail, postfix, mysql.
Now, I want to be able to send and receive mails using dovecot. Could you guide me a little in order to replace courier-imap with dovecot, starting from this documentation? I already have my databases configured, a vmail user, ssl certificates and postifx configured for virtualhosts. Seems that the only thing missing is imap + smts thrue TLS.
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by Rolinh (2011-08-17 10:40:19)

The dovecot configuration files are very well commented with documentation and examples in /etc/dovecot/
As for TLS and SMTP Auth, this is the relevant part of my main.cf for postfix:
# TLS Settings
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/wildcard.example.com.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/wildcard.example.com.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/root.crt
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
# Enable SMTP authentication support
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain
smtpd_sasl_path = /srv/postfix/private/auth
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated
Last edited by fukawi2 (2011-08-17 12:33:15)

Connecting to Incoming Mail Server Problems

I'm trying to set up email on my new laptop for my company... this is the first time to get a mac on the windows server. IMAP is enabled and that's what I'm trying to set up through. My IT dept. has even put my ID on the IMAP protocol permissions. However, I still cannot connect to the incoming server... only outgoing. I can send email, just not recieve. I'm getting the message that the password is being rejected.
Settings:
Account ID: DOMAIN\SJOHNSON
Pswd: XXXXXX
Incoming server: 10.X.X.X
Outgoing server: 10.X.X.X (same as incoming)
Can anyone help? Any suggestions, please?!?!?!
Thank you!
Shannon
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I started having this same problem yesterday after installing the Safari 7.0.6 update. This has to be a coincidence.
I have 11 email accounts setup in Apple Mail. The only one working now is my work exchange email. The rest are either accounts I host on my own OS X Mavericks Server using IMAP and SMTP over SSL except for two of them which are GMAIL and iCloud.
Same issue. The iMac just displays the warning triangle symbol and when I click I get the Unable to Connect dialog with the message.
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for account “iCloud” or try again.
The server returned the error: The server “p03-imap.mail.me.com” cannot be contacted on port 993.
I have verified the settings on all of my IOS devices and they are the same. As with the original post, my IOS devices are all able to connect to all of my accounts without any problems.
To try and troubleshoot this issue I switched to another user account and tried to connect to one of my mail accounts and got the same Unable to Connect issue. I then opened another email client (Thunderbird) and configured the email account exactly the same there (IMAP on port 993 and SMTP on port 587). Thunderbird was able to connect and retrieve my mail without any problems. As an additional test I opened up terminal and tried "telnet p03-imap.mail.me.com 993". I was immediately connected to the iCloud server.
To sum up this does not appear to be a problem with the iMac, the user account, my mail server or the network. It appears to be a problem with Apple Mail only.
I wonder if there is a plist file or something that needs nuking.

POP3 mail server

Hi,
Is there any sample java code which will do the activity of sending/receiving mails from/to POP3 server?
Is it a java method to redirect the mails to any specific directory in unix directory?
regards
venki

Hello Sir,
Sorry, i think i should be knowing the pop3 server host name. its my mistake. i think yahoo mail plus only providing pop3 hostname. its not possible to connect with pop3 yahoo server with normail mail user.
Ok Cool.
I have one more quetion. Is it Java having some APIs (java should be running as background process always) which processing with INBOX folder and check for new mails ,as soon as the new mail arrives, it should be redirected to other personal folder in the mail nox.
Following code is the one which process with mailbox and get all the messages and store into one dir called msg ,and get all the attachement and store them into attach folder.
code]
import com.jscape.inet.pop.*;
import com.jscape.inet.mime.*;
import com.jscape.inet.email.*;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.io.*;
public class Example {
private static File messagesDir = new File("msg");
private static File attachmentsDir = new File("attach");
static BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
// get messages from Pop mailbox
public void getMessages(String hostname, String username, String password)
throws PopException, MimeException, IOException {
// ensure that messages directory is valid
if(!messagesDir.exists()) {
messagesDir.mkdir();
// ensure that attachments directory is valid
if(!attachmentsDir.exists()) {
attachmentsDir.mkdir();
// connect and login
Pop pop = new Pop(hostname,username,password);
pop.connect();
System.out.println("Retrieving messsages....");
// get messages
Enumeration messages = pop.getMessages();
if(!messages.hasMoreElements()) {
System.out.println("No messages found");
// write messages to disk
int msgnum = 0;
while(messages.hasMoreElements()) {
++msgnum;
EmailMessage msg = (EmailMessage)messages.nextElement();
               String s= msg.getSubject();
               File f = new File(messagesDir,"msg" + msgnum + ".txt");
               BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(f) );
               String fromString = "From: "+msg.getFrom();
               out.write(fromString);
               out.newLine();
               String toString = "To: "+msg.getTo();
               out.write(toString);
               out.newLine();
               String dateString = "Sent: "+msg.getDate();
               out.write(dateString);
               out.newLine();
               String msgString =msg.getBody();
               out.write(msgString);
               out.newLine();
               //Not written to the file until enough data accumulates.
               //The data is stored in a buffer until then.
               out.close();
               //Causes any unwritten data to be flushed from
               //the buffer and written to the file.
System.out.println("Retrieved message: " + f.getAbsoluteFile());
// write attachments to disk
int attachnum = 0;
Enumeration attachments = msg.getAttachments();
while(attachments.hasMoreElements()) {
++attachnum;
Attachment attach = (Attachment)attachments.nextElement();
String attachmentFileName = attach.getFilename();
if(attachmentFileName == null) {
attachmentFileName = "attachment" + msgnum + "-" + attachnum;
String fileName = attach.getFilename();
if(fileName == null) {
fileName = System.currentTimeMillis() + ".txt";
File attFile = new File(attachmentsDir,fileName);
FileOutputStream attOut = new FileOutputStream(attFile);
try {
attOut.write(attach.getFileData());
attOut.close();
System.out.println("Retrieved attachment: " + attFile.getAbsoluteFile());
catch(Exception e) {
throw new PopException("unable to decode file attachment");
pop.disconnect();
public static void main(String[] args) {
String hostname;
String username;
String password;
try {
System.out.print("Enter Pop3 hostname (e.g. pop.yahoo.com): ");
hostname = reader.readLine();
System.out.print("Enter Pop3 Username: ");
username = reader.readLine();
System.out.print("Enter Pop3 Password: ");
password = reader.readLine();
Example example = new Example();
example.getMessages(hostname,username,password);
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
The above has not checking the new mail messages arriaval, it just retrieve all the messages every time. what i really need is run the java program in background live and check for new mails ,if it comes it should be save the msg/attach in the dirs and move the mails into one folder under the inbox.
Waiting for your valuable reply!
regards
venki[

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I had Earthlink POP / SMTP ( In/Out ) Mail server and mac Mail set up when I pulled the power plug on PMG4 due to freeze up !
Now have no contents in mac Mail program In/Out/Sent/Draft on the PMG4 hardrive or the external Lacie brick back-up hardrive. I am told by Earthlink this is because I had the " don't save email copy on server " box checked in the Mail/Add account/Advanced section.
Any idea how I can retieve my email folders ?
Also cannot get rid of 6 account names listed erroneously under Mail/Preferences/Account/Accounts Information/outgoing mail server ! And yet there is only one account listed when the accounts button is pushed. This is making it impossible to connect to the earthlink server ! Earthlink says everythings fine on their end and I have the correct Server Port number entered ! Earthlink says it's a problem with macMail !
Help !

This is no longer an issue

Comcast outgoing mail server problems

I have seen this problem posted for other ISPs but I am having the same problem with Comcast. I complete the mail set-up but when I go to send mail I recieve the "cannot send mail using smtp.comcast.com outgoing server" pop-up. Any suggestions.
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I use Comcast as well and I'm not having any problems. How do you have your server settings set?
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Authentication: None
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Thunderbird 24.0 and mail server problem (STARTTLS mode)

Apple XServer MAC OS 10.6.8
Server Apps 10.6.5 (328.4)
I have thunderbid 24.0 problem with Apple XServer 10.6 in STARTTLS mode? Thunderbird 17.0 working fine with mail server without any problem.
In TB 24, when you use STARTTLS to make security connection to mail server. And you send the message, you getting error messages that you failed to sent? In TB 17, no error and able to sent message without any problem.
Also note: that Thunderbird 24 for Windows ALSO problem as well. same problem as above.
I wonder if mail server need update or change setting to be working with Thunderbird 24.0?
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Worlaan

That what problem I have.
When I sent the message and got error message: Send Message Error. Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent using SMTP server mail.****.*** for an unknown reason. Please verify that your SMTP server settings are correct and try again, or contact your network administrator.
smtp.log from TB 24:
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Connecting to: mail.****.***
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 220 ****.*** ESMTP Postfix
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 14
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Send: EHLO Fanwood-200.local
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-****.***
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-PIPELINING
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
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1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-VRFY
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-ETRN
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-STARTTLS
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250-8BITMIME
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 250 DSN
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 4
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 21
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Send: STARTTLS
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 0
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Response: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 19
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP entering state: 14
1882811584[100330240]: SMTP Send: EHLO Fanwood-200.local
(It stopped here.)
And it never show security certificate alert. Note: I changed domain name to hide. (****.***)

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Last night Mail quit downloading emails on one account. It showed the ( Triangle ! ) icon.
Selected Take "Pop Account" Online
Get New Mail from "Pop Account"
No new mail arrives yet entering the Mail Server from the browser shows new emails.
The message list now shows Take "Pop Account" Online
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Please advise
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