pop3 net_socket problem

Mitch Planck wrote:

> So it looks like my client's server (LotusNotes)
doesn't like working
> with Pear-Net_POP3.
> 
> After banging my head on the wall for a while I found
an old program called
> perdition, which is a pop3 (and other) proxy. With this
program's very lame
> documentation it took me several hours to configure it
but it works without
> having two separate config.php files as well. I'm
using a setup where it
> looks at the email address used to login, if it's from
my client's domain it
> uses their pop3 server, if not, my pop3 server. I'm
guessing that the pop3
> implementation works better with LotusNotes than the
pear version.

Ah, Lotus Notes   A couple
of thoughts come to mind:

(1) Are you sure that the Notes server was listening on the
standard
POP3 port (110) and not on the SSL-protected POP3 port
(995)?  If it
indeed needs to connect on port 995, you'll also need to
prefix the
hostname with "ssl://" in config.php to tell
PEAR::Net_POP3 to use the
SSL libraries.  (Hopefully your version of Net_POP3 was
/built/ with SSL
support, of course.)

(2) With Notes, the POP3 username can include spaces and a
forward slash
to separate the username from an organization identifier
(e.g. "John
Smith/IBM").  Maia's POP3 support is pretty basic,
and expects the
username to be the "user" part of a
"userdomain" e-mail address, so if
the Notes usernames don't fit this format, they won't
authenticate
properly.  A new address-rewriting or custom authentication
type would
need to be added in order to figure out what values to
submit to the
POP3 server for authentication.  The generic
"external" auth method can
be used for that purpose, letting you supply your own
script.

Either way, though, if the perdition proxy is working for
you, that's
great too! 

-- 
Robert LeBlanc <rjlrenaissoft.com>
Renaissoft, Inc.
Maia Mailguard <http://www.maiamail
guard.com/>

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