On Mon 1999-07-12 (19:05), Alvaro Escobar wrote:
> 
>    I have Linux 2.0.36. I installed qmail. It is working fine.
>    
>    I am running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver and qmail-pop3d under inetd.
>    I can see my e-mails from any Windows station with Outlook Express.
>    
>    I would like to have qmail-pop3d running under tcpserver too.
>    
>    I put the following line in my rc.local:
>    
>    
>    
>    tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ns1.integral.com.co
>    \
>    
>    /bin/checkpasswd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d maildir 2>&1 | \
>    
>    /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
    
Your tcpserver line appears to be fine. Perhaps maildir should be Maildir
though.

>    However when I intent to see my e-mail from any Windows station with
>    Outlook Express, I get the following message: �ERR authorization
>    failed�.

I suspect checkpassword is your problem. Mark Delany's checkpassword test at
the top of the "Alternative Checkpassword Implementations" on www.qmail.org
should help. (Just a note though that on my system id is in /usr/bin).

  - Keith
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