Hi guys,

as reported in QMAIL FAQ I tried to start qmail-pop3d from inetd and
from tcpserver but when I try to read my mail telnetting port 110 I get
the following error:

>check for illegal characters   : failed, POP username contains illegal characters

infact le username and password passed to pop3d are:

>action: parsing arguments

> parsing arguments: POP username is'/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d'
> parsing arguments: POP password is 'Maildir'

> `-ERR authorization failed

I think something is wrong in my inetd.conf starup line:

pop3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
qmail-popup asterix.area.telital.com /bin/checkpassword
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir

or from tcpserver: 

tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup asterix.area.telital.com
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &

I'm using SuSE Linux 6.2.

Does anyone can help me?

TIA

Andrea Verni

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