A few things to check:
1) what platform is this? Are both invocations on the same platform?
2) how were they built (and with which options, if known)
3) does your POP server use any special authentication
4) Can you check the version in CVS (available at
http://mhost.com/nmh/cvs.html)
Once we have this info, we should have a better picture of the problem.
If you have time, you can also do a scatter check of nmh-1.0, nmh-1.0.2
and others to see where it stopped working.
IIRC, there were some changes to ruserpass and it's invocation
post-1.0.4, so the problem might be fixed.
Shantonu
>> inc does not work for me in recent issues of nmh, e.g. nmh-1.0.4.
>> The last version that works is nmh-0.27.
>>
>> Here is the description of the bug
>> ----------------------------------
>> I use pop3 with my password stored in ~/.netrc.
>> With 0.27:
>>
>> ajsh@dusk ~% inc -host glow.colorado.edu -snoop
>> <--- +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at glow starting. <26822.981413531@glow>
>> ---> USER ajsh
>> <--- +OK Password required for ajsh.
>> ---> PASS ********
>> <--- +OK ajsh has 0 messages (0 octets).
>> ---> STAT
>> <--- +OK 0 0
>> ---> QUIT
>> <--- +OK Pop server at glow signing off.
>> inc: no mail to incorporate
>>
>> With 1.0.4:
>>
>> ajsh@dusk ~% inc -host glow.colorado.edu -snoop
>> <--- +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at glow starting. <26845.981414173@glow>
>> ---> USER ajsh
>> <--- +OK Password required for ajsh.
>> ---> PASS ********
>> <--- -ERR Password supplied for "ajsh" is incorrect.
>> ---> QUIT
>> connection closed by foreign host
>> -ERR Password supplied for "ajsh" is incorrect.
>> inc: -ERR Password supplied for "ajsh" is incorrect.
>>
>> Where the bug is in the code
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> The bug is where inc.c calls
>> ruserpass (host, &user, &pass);
>> ruserpass is `undocumented', so it is hard to see the problem.
>>
>> In nmh-0.27, ruserpass returns 0;
>> in nmh-1.0.4, ruserpass returns -1.
>>
>> The inputs going into rusperpass are identical, namely (host, null, null),
>> but while 0.27 returns the correct user and password,
>> 1.0.4 returns a correct user but null password.
>>
>> I have checked that uid and gid are identical in both 0.27 and 1.0.4.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks, Andrew Hamilton
>> http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/
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