ERR: USER command only available under a layer

[Jon Mercer]

It means you are telnetting  to the pop3 port on 110, and you've left 
the pop3 server enabled in cyrus.conf. If you want to get to an imap 
server you need port 143.

Christian Cernuschi wrote:
> i'm setting an imap server under gentoo but i get this error
> what does it mean?
> thanks in advice
> bye
> 
> 
> lyra root # telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK lyra Cyrus POP3 v2.1.12 server ready <1210328575.1061987199 at lyra>
> user prova
> -ERR [AUTH] USER command only available under a layer
> 


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