I'm going to keep posting in the hope that someone who knows the

answer will eventually respond. (I realise that thinking down to my level

probaby hurts - I apologise...)

I just need SUSE 8.2 to act as a mailserver and to accept POP3 and IMAP

connections to PC clients.

POP3 and IMAP either get username password rejected or refused authorisation.

I note that SUSE8.2 comes with a warning that unencrypted sessions are not

allowed. I've never had this restriction placed on PC access before. So perhaps

I don't know how to configure a PC for this. I have tried going into the advanced

TAM on Outlook Express and making it do SSL - with the result that I am refused

access.

I have tried telnet to the linux box to port 110, etc and get a welcome message so

I know POP3 and IMAP demons are running on the box OK. But they won't allow

me to use USER username PASS password returning an authorisation error - possibly

as I am not using an SSL session.

I have also realised that I need to use the full email address as a logon rather than just

the abbreviated logon name (or so it would seem).

Surely - someone must be sitting there thinking - ah He's forgotten to enable SSL or

He needs a certificate (I probably do need to be certified...mad). Come on. What am I

missing to do?

Alan Davies

Head of Computing

Birkenhead School