WinGate and POP3 Colection

[StephanBotha]

Hi there,

A few months ago I started considering the possibility of using WinGate. I have come to a decision and WinGate won! Now I have loads of issues that I need to have addressed before I can continue to actually buy WinGate.

I have installed WinGate and as far as I know, it's working perfectly. I have a mail server in the US that I use to handle my emails. All my emails are directed to gulffidelity.com. Within this domain is a "catch-all" account called gulffide@gulffidelity.com. I want to set up WinGate to pull all the mails from gulffide@gulffidelity.com and then distribute the mails locally to whomever it belongs. I use to work with MDaemon and it was as easy as falling out of a tree setting this up. I find that it is REALLY difficult to set it up like this using WinGate.

So, to quickly recap:
I want WinGate to pull all mails from my "catch-all" account and distribute them to users locally.

I have set it up with my username and password for the domain's "catch-all" account. When I command WinGate to RUN POP3 MAIL COLLECTION, I can see for a split second in the activity tab that it's connecting. I move over to the Mail Queue tab and nothing is happening there.

I check the mailbox online and see all the emails still waiting to be downloaded. I have tried everything I can except posting on the forums. Well, here I am now; Posting on the forums.

PS: Anyone know why the official WinGate site is offline?

[Nev]

Hi,

What you could try is to vary the authentication scheme to communicate with the remote pop box, there is various options from SASL, NTLM etc to try.

Also, in the SMTP server, enable debug logging if the above doesn't help and you can post a snippet back here from the ..\Wingate\Logs\SMTP Server\ directory to guide the forum.

[StephanBotha]

I've tried that yesterday. I changed it to all of them. When I order WinGate to run the command "RUN POP3 MAIL COLLECTION". Nothing happens. Arg!!!

I'll quikcly post the logs here a little later. I'm at GMT +4 so everytime I get a reply, it's already another day! I need help!

[adrien]

Hi

POP3 collection relies on the SMTP server running. If this isn't started, then POP3 collection doesn't get scheduled.

If you don't want to use WinGate SMTP for receiving, yet still want POP3 collection and delivery of any retrieved mail, then enable the SMTP service, but disable all its bindings.

Regards

Adrien

[logan]

I was able to take a look at Stephan's server yesterday (thanks Stephan :)). After enabling debug logging on the SMTP Server and trying a few collections, I could see in the POP3 Collection log file that the connection was ending unexpectedly upon SSL/TLS negotiation. Suspecting the problem may be with SSL/TLS negotiation, I turned off "Use secure connection if supported by server (TLS)" for the POP3 collection which allowed WinGate to start collecting emails again.