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/

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