Outlook/Thunderbird problem (1 Viewer)

[Chxta]

I installed Outlook and Thunderbird on the systems in my office, and for some days they worked fine. Suddenly, there are no longer downloading emails, keep saying they can't connect to the server. Any tips?

And to get it straight, I installed either Outlook or Thunderbird depending on each user's preference.

If anyone could be so kind, I am trying to connect to 206.51.231.44. If you wish, I could setup an email account for you (done it already, [email protected], password is password). You want to try it out? Either Outlook or Thunderbird.

 

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[Martin]

There are two common ways to attack this problem.

1. Get the error message from the client and google it for answers.
2. Check the server logs for errors.

And what you've said isn't enough, what exactly are you trying to do? Send mail or receive mail? pop, imap or smtp?


As an aside, you should think about securing your server (since it's on the public internet) and disable all services that aren't strictly necessary, cause this doesn't look good from a security point of view:

 nmap -P0 206.51.231.44

Starting Nmap 4.01 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-06-26 16:21 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page
Interesting ports on 206.51.231.44:
(The 1638 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT      STATE    SERVICE
21/tcp    open     ftp
22/tcp    open     ssh
25/tcp    open     smtp
53/tcp    open     domain
67/tcp    filtered dhcps
69/tcp    filtered tftp
80/tcp    open     http
110/tcp   open     pop3
111/tcp   filtered rpcbind
135/tcp   filtered msrpc
137/tcp   filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp   filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp   filtered netbios-ssn
143/tcp   open     imap
194/tcp   filtered irc
443/tcp   open     https
445/tcp   filtered microsoft-ds
465/tcp   open     smtps
529/tcp   filtered irc-serv
993/tcp   open     imaps
994/tcp   filtered ircs
995/tcp   open     pop3s
1022/tcp  filtered unknown
1023/tcp  filtered netvenuechat
1025/tcp  filtered NFS-or-IIS
1026/tcp  filtered LSA-or-nterm
1900/tcp  filtered UPnP
3306/tcp  open     mysql
5000/tcp  filtered UPnP
6666/tcp  open     irc-serv
6667/tcp  filtered irc
12345/tcp filtered NetBus
12346/tcp filtered NetBus
31337/tcp filtered Elite

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11.754 seconds

Looks like you have both pop and imap running, either one in both regular and ssl mode, why is all that necessary?

 

[Chxta]

pop3.

Please just use that test account I set up so I'll know if the outlook or Thunderbird thingy works elsewhere for my mailserver.

 

[Martin]

Using Thunderbird 1.5.0.4..

with "test" as username: Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server 206.51.231.44 responded: Login failed.

with "[email protected]" as username: Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server at 206.51.231.44 responded: Maildir invalid (no 'cur' directory)

 

[Chxta]

Thanks.

So the problem is from me server. Let me find where it is.