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Mail in OSX Lion : pop not OK

Hello,


I was in OSX Snow Leopard and it was OK on the Mail program. (2 accounts hotmail, 2 accounts gmail and 1 account from my provider. (scarlet))

I upgrade to Lion yesterday. My pop account does not run anymore... I created it again but impossible to get my mails from Scarlet...

Mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 11:46 PM

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Jul 21, 2011 5:59 AM in response to Kodac1979

Hey, got the same problem. Mail worked perfect untill I upgraded to Lion. Now I can send email messages, but "Mail" can't receive my incomming messages. All my account details are good, it's just that I don't receive my email messages from my provider (which is Scarlet, in Belgium).


Error mesage (translated):

The POP-server 'pop.scarlet.be' does not support password-identitycontrol


I already called Apple Care but after one hour we still didn't find a solution! They were very helpful and toook their time. They'll keep me updated on a solution. I just hope they find a solution fast !

Jul 21, 2011 12:47 PM in response to Kodac1979

Same problem here and only with Scarlet, others Pop mails are Ok.


When investigating by doing a telnet on port 110 on pop.scarlet.be and doing the CAPA command, I see that the authentication is : USER SASL PLAIN LOGIN, that seems to cause problem to Lion mail.

When you try the same command on a working Pop server by exemple pop.skynet.be, the CAPA command gives you only USER.


I think the problem come from mail, as the same sequence was well understood under Snow Leopard, and the mail server works find with Thunderbird.


Normally after the CAPA command, it should sends the USER and PASS commands to effectively connect to the mail server, but it's not the case, it just send the QUIT command to end the connection.

The connection is done through a kCFStreamsOcketSecurityLevelNone.


Maybe it might help in the investigations.

Jul 21, 2011 1:15 PM in response to VoxMac

Hi there,

This Pop issue is not limited to Scarlet's Pop. I have exactly the same issue with P&T Luxembourg.

I created, deleted and recreated several times the connection under Lion thinking that I had done something wrong. No way, it just doesn't work with Lion.

The good thing is that I installed Lion on a separate disk partition instead of upgrading....meaning that I can still boot to Snow and have my Mac perfectly working with the same Pop from P&T Luxembourg until Apple fixes the problem.

Jul 22, 2011 12:23 PM in response to Kodac1979

Same problems here in Holland. Webmail works just fine even as the gmail account in mail. Only the mail from a private provider doesn't seem to work in mail (Lion). Strange but everything works just fine on my Macbook Pro which still has Tiger on it. I'm not gonna install Lion on that one before everything has been fixed by Apple. I hope somebody will find a solution soon.



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Mail in OSX Lion : pop not OK

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