Re: POP password checking

[Sam]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jacob Joseph wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting qmail-popd to accept my password.  What
> could be causing the trouble.  The user is in the assign file and I
> have run qmail-newu and then restarted qmail.  I've delivered a
> message to the user for testing, but I can't see anything in that
> user's directory with ls -al nor can I get in with pop.
> 
> Any ideas?

AFAIK qmail-pop3d does not read assign, and it authenticates against the
system username only.