After turning on debug mode (duh!) it turns out that the problem accounts need the 'AUTH_MODE' to be set explicitly.
Thanks all. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:39 PM > To: Joel Gwynn > Cc: Boston-Pm > Subject: [Boston.pm] Mail::POP3Client problems > > > From: "Joel Gwynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:53:45 -0500 > > I'm developing an online email app and it logs into some > accounts just fine, > but it seems to be having trouble logging into some users' > accounts, and not > giving me very much info . . . > > This gives me the output: > > USER failed: > > What does this mean? > > Pre-authentication error messages tend to be uninformative, by design. > After all, if the server distinguished between "bad user" and "bad > password," spammers could fish for valid addresses. If I were you, I'd > check the POP server logs, and see if there's a way to enable verbose > logging. > > -- Bob Rogers > http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

