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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers problem with character @ inside username to use pop3 with nail Post 302420699 by chemi on Thursday 13th of May 2010 04:27:45 AM
Old 05-13-2010
problem with character @ inside username to use pop3 with nail
Thanks zaxxon. I knew this article and I tried it. The article says:

"set folder=imaps://shell-monkey@imap.web.de

The folder option tells Nail where to get the mail from. The string starts with the protocol used to fetch your mail. Possible values beside imaps are imap, pop3, and pop3s. The rest of the folder string consists of your login name and server address."

My case:
Username is developers@afinformatica.com;
server is mail.afinformatica.com

then I have configured the following:

set folder=pop3://developers@afinformatica.com@mail.afinformatica.com

but, obviously, this's wrong. I also tried:

set folder=pop3://developers@mail.afinformatica.com

then, nail tried to read but pop3 returns

informix@linux:~> nail -f myisp
POP3 error: -ERR Login failed.
Password:

My pop3 server doesn't know username "developers". I think that I need to configurate my domain in somewhere but ¿where?


Thanks again

---------- Post updated at 04:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:33 PM ----------

In this page http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail says

“If user contains special characters, in particular '/' or '%', they must be escaped in URL notation, as '%2F' or '%25'.”

Then I have tried:

set folder=pop3://developers%40afinformatica.com@mail.afinformatica.com

where %40 is @ in url notation

but this doesn't work Smilie


Any idea?




---------- Post updated 13-05-10 at 10:27 AM ---------- Previous update was 12-05-10 at 04:46 PM ----------

Hi

I got that pop3 works.

Problem was the nail version. I have tried with another version and it works:

the solution:

developers\@afinformatica.com@mail.afinformatica.com


Thanks for all Smilie
 

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authen::simple::pop3

Authen::Simple::POP3(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Authen::Simple::POP3(3pm)

NAME

       Authen::Simple::POP3 - Simple POP3 authentication

SYNOPSIS

	   use Authen::Simple::POP3;

	   my $pop3 = Authen::Simple::POP3->new(
	       host => 'pop3.company.com'
	   );

	   if ( $pop3->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
	       # successfull authentication
	   }

	   # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::POP3

	   PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePOP3_host "pop3.company.com"

	   <Location /protected>
	     PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::POP3
	     AuthType	       Basic
	     AuthName	       "Protected Area"
	     Require	       valid-user
	   </Location>

DESCRIPTION

       Authenticate against a POP3 service.

METHODS

       * new
	   This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

	   * host  Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to "localhost".

		       host => 'ftp.company.com'
		       host => '10.0.0.1'

	   * port  Connection port, defaults to 110.

		       port => 110

	   * timeout
		   Connection timeout, defaults to 60.

		       timeout => 60

	   * method
		   Authentication method, defaults to "plain". Valid options are "apop", "plain", "sasl".

		       method => 'plain'

	   * log   Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".

		       log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::POP3')

       * authenticate( $username, $password )
	   Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple.

       Net::POP3.

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-01						 Authen::Simple::POP3(3pm)
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