On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 01:13:53 +0200 (WET), Marie Fischer wrote:

> On the weekend, I upgraded/installed arachne 16b1 on my parents' computer.
> Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and couldn't test everything, but
> yesterday they phoned complaining that they couldn't get any e-mail. All
> the info I could get (by phone, 200 km away) was that the pop3 password
> had disappeared from the edit box where it's supposed to be and they
> couldn't get it back there - they said something 'bout it being too long
> (9 chars) to fit in.

One of the e-mail addresses I use, needs a password of 12 characters.
This is visible in the edit box and in the file 'arachne.cfg' as well.
I guess, the reason why Arachne can't handle it is because it starts
with a period (it works with UKA_PPP, not with Arachne).

- Best regards,

- Willy J. Hoogstraten.

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