Re: Vsoup Problem - Can't connect to POP Server

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 23:11:53 -0500

>Seem like a lot of problems are cropping up with Vsoup. Mine arises
>when I try to get my mail. I get the following message in my log:
>
>vsoup: cannot connect to pop3 server austin.i-link.net
>
>Here are the lines from my .cmd file that are supposed to call for
>news and mail (news works OK.) The >> and << indicate a long line.
>
>rem f:\tcpip\SOUPER\vsoup -t4 -M -a -k 6144 nntp://news.i-link.net >>
><< smtp://@austin.i-link.net pop3://LabRat:(PASSWORD)@austin.i-link.net

>f:\tcpip\SOUPER\vsoup -t8 -M -a -k 6144 nntp://news.i-link.net >>
><<smtp://austin.i-link.net pop3://austin.i-link.net
>
>As can be seen, I've tried calling pop both with and without
>ID/password. Both times pop mail has bombed. Also, it seems I wasn't
>able to open more than 4 threads - is this normal, or is this an
>anomaly? Souper works fine in retrieving mail. Looking at the
>yarnio.cmd file, it looks like vsoup is run without defining the URLs
>as the readme shows, nor could I find any reference to UserID or
>password. Are these URLs supposed to be defined elsewhere, or on the
>command line? Am I reading the readme correctly?

VSoup does not use multiple threads for getting mail, only when getting
news.

I didn't know you could call VSoup with smtp:// and pop3:// on the same
command line? That would mean to get and send mail at the same time?

Also, you're command line above is missing "-s" to send mail if that is
the intention?

I call VSoup (and Souper) separately for getting/sending, like this;

VSoup ... pop3://
VSoup ... -s smtp://

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Phil Crown
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